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April 15, 1968: On this date, the album Underground by Thelonius Monk was released. Album cover art depicted Monk as a member of the French Resistance in WW2. Won a Grammy for best album cover. Still best album cover ever.

#Jazz #Resistance #WW2 #Grammy

Image shows Monk’s Underground album. Monk is sitting at a dusty piano in a barn with a cow in the background. He has a sub-machine gun hanging from his right shoulder. in the left background a Nazi officer is sitting in a chair tied with a rope around his torso and his hands bound behind his back. There is a table in the foreground with bread, grapes, cheese, and a shot glass of alcohol but additionally a 45 caliber handgun, multiple grenades and a radio set with Morse code clicker. There are several bottles have half drunk liquor on the piano as well as binoculars, a binocs case, another handgun, and grenades. On the far wall are maps and a photo of Charles de Gaulle.
#Resistance #jazz #ww2 #grammy

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