Jazz album covers

Jazz album covers by record labels such as Blue Note and Verve were pretty cool and well designed when they were originally released. However designer Jeff Rochester from America has recently picked some classic album covers like Blue Train by John Coltrane, Time Out by Dave Brubeck and Kind of Blue by Miles Davis and given them a reworking – Nice

While Reid Miles’s signature is clearly on this cover, several sources also credit the design to Andy Warhol who worked on a few jazz covers in the 1950s during his career as a commercial artist. The disctinctive Warholian lettering is evidence that he played a role. But Warhol

The beginning During the 1950s and 1960s modern jazz became a widely recognized part of American culture. As a musical form, it was radically changed in the 1940s by the bebop experiments of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and other musicians who were playing at clubs in New York. By the 1950s, their music began to reach a wider audience through recordings, which introduced many other musicians to the new style. Columbia was the first record label to introduce album covers,

Reid Miles was an American modernist designer, a genius of his time, best known for his work for Blue Note Records through the 1950’s and 60’s. During this period he designed almost 500...

The artwork of the Blue Note jazz record label has come to represent everything that is brilliant and innovative in album cover design.

Max Roach. Label: Vogue LD 014 (1952) Design: Pierre Merlin.

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Several albums’ covers of famous Jazz artists with extraordinary and remarkable design >>> <<

Blue Note Records, Art Blakey album cover in halftone.

Miles Davis - 'Round About Midnight