#Thelonious monk poster full#

Vinyl: CS 9632 US Columbia two-eye 360 degree sound. The selection вЂњUgly BeautyвЂќ is the only waltz in MonkвЂ™s seventy compositions. It was the last Monk album featuring the Thelonious Monk QuartetВ with Charlie RouseВ appearing on only half the tracks. Perhaps over-shadowed by its cover art, Underground contains a significant number of new Monk compositions, some of which only appear in recorded form on this album. His penultimate studio recording under contract to Columbia (1962-8), following which Monk all but disappeared from the recording scene. And Niiiice.ДЄn early Sixties laminate would have finished it beautifully, but those times had gone, the budget was for art directors, not cover manufacturers. Monk has his eyes fixed on the photographer, rabbit in the headlights,В giving away theВ artificeВ in a glance.В If he hadВ concentrated on playing the piano, casting the viewer asВ voyeurВ of a вЂњrealвЂќ piano-playing resistance fighter, it could haveВ taken itВ to a different level.

LJC thinks: The rise and rise of вЂњart directionвЂќ: big budget вЂњconceptвЂќВ cover art,В detached from the musical content. I won a Grammy for that cover, by the way.вЂќ There was no problem with budgets in those days.

#Thelonious monk poster full#

An entire set was built and the scene was full of costumed extras. вЂњOn TheloniousВ MonkвЂ™sВ Underground, a project with photographers Steve Horn and Norman Griner, the title of the album came from a current jazz movement, which I twisted into a version of the French anti-Nazi underground of World War II.

In an interview, Berg said of the Underground cover: John Berg was art director of Columbia between 19, overseeing notable projects for Chicago, Bob Dylan and Barbara Streisand as well as the famous Bruce Springsteen Born to Run fold out cover. Musicians: Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone Thelonious Monk, piano Larry Gales, bass Ben Riley, drums recordedВ NYC, DecemFebrurecording engineers Fred Plaut and Arthur Kendy, producer TeoВ Macero.Д¬over Art:В photography: Horn Grinner Studios В art direction:В John Berg, Richard Mantel,