This LP helped to reinvent Monk's reputation, showing listeners that Monk was not just a "mad genius" but a structured and well-rounded musician with the ability to lucidly interpret and reinvent the works of another composer.
Monk, considered one of the greatest Jazz pianists of all time, recorded Underground in '67-'68. It's the last recording with the Thelonious Monk Quartet and one of the last albums he made for Columbia.
Often referred to as "Brazil's unofficial poet laureate" and the "Bob Dylan of Brazil", this heavyweight of Brazilian music was also a young revolutionary who used his music to protest against Brazil's oppressive military regime.