Thelonious Monk

1.     Dinah (Take 2)
2.     I Surrender, Dear
3.     Sweet And Lovely (Take 2)
4.     North Of The Sunset
5.     Ruby, My Dear
6.     I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)
7.     I Hadn't Anyone Till You
8.     Everything Happens To Me (Take 3)
9.     Monk's Point
10.     I Should Care
11.     Ask Me Now
12.     These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)

Monk’s 1946 solo affair ranks among the pioneering pianist’s most introspective, cerebral, and emotional outings. His trademark angularity informs a majority of the pieces, yet so does grand classicism and melodic rapture. Monk’s readings of the originals and standards practically stand the tunes on their collective ears. Solo Monk is simply amazing. And now, mastered from the original master tapes, this 180gram LP brings all the music closer, and into more transparent form, than ever before.

1.     Dinah (Take 2)
2.     I Surrender, Dear
3.     Sweet And Lovely (Take 2)
4.     North Of The Sunset
5.     Ruby, My Dear
6.     I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)
7.     I Hadn't Anyone Till You
8.     Everything Happens To Me (Take 3)
9.     Monk's Point
10.     I Should Care
11.     Ask Me Now
12.     These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)

1. Trinkle Tinkle
2. Crepuscule With Nellie
3. Darn That Dream
4. Little Rootie Tootie
5. Meet Me Tonight In Dreamland
6. Nice Work If You Can Get It
7. My Melancholy Baby
8. Jackieing
9. Loverman
10. Blue Sphere

The third and final installment of Thelonious Monk’s London Collection, his last recording session as a band leader, finally gets its time to shine on vinyl. The recording features the legendary pianist/composer on six solo performances as well as five numbers with bassist Al McKibbon and drummer Art Blakey. It was remastered from original analog tapes by Bernie Grundman and pressed on 180gram audiophile-grade vinyl at Pallas in Germany.

1. Trinkle Tinkle
2. The Man I Love
3. Something In Blue
4. Introspection
5. Trinkle Tinkle
6. Crepuscule With Nellie
7. Nutty
8. Introspection
9. Hackensack
10. Evidence
11. Cordially

This release has long been considered Thelonious Monk's acknowledgement to the flourishing youth-oriented subculture from whence the collection takes its name. Certainly the Grammy-winning cover - which depicts Monk as a World War II French revolutionary toting an automatic weapon - gave the establishment more than the brilliant swinging sounds in the grooves to consider. Underground became Monk's penultimate studio album, as well as the final release to feature the '60s quartet: Charlie Rouse, Ben Riley, and Larry Gales. This 180gram audiophile-grade pressing was mastered from analog tapes.

1. Thelonious
2. Ugly Beauty
3. Raise Four
4. Boo Boo’s Birthday
5. Easy Street
6. Green Chimneys
7. In Walked Bud