![]() ![]() In the same year, he and his regular quartet – Charlie Rouse (tenor saxophone), Larry Gales (bass) and Ben Riley (drums) – played a high school gig in Palo Alto, California, organised by one of the students. He wasn’t about to change his style, and Underground didn’t sound markedly different from anything he’d recorded before, apart from the appearance of Jon Hendricks on In Walked Bud. But Monk was not underground, he was what he had always been – a pianist who had carved out a unique and instantly recognisable sound at the piano, a composer of timeless genius who had burst on to the scene at the beginning of the previous decade. They even tried to promote his new Underground album as… well, “underground” – a pose you had to strike in order to get taken seriously in 1968, or so they thought. Kelley points out in his terrific contextual sleeve notes, Columbia Records (Monk’s label while he was alive) were terrified that he was being left in the dust by his successors. It was well past bebop, and the intervening years had seen many new pretenders to the piano crown – Evans, Peterson, Hancock, Tyner – and it was the year that both Chick Corea and Keith Jarrett made their first solo albums. CD Review by Peter Jones)īy 1968 Thelonious Monk was considered a bit vieux chapeau in some quarters.
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