Jazz Record Covers
July 2nd, 2008I found this MASSIVE collection of Jazz record covers so big that I didn’t have enough time to go through it all. But the stuff that I did see is absolutely amazing. There are even hi-res versions of each cover.
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Crispi
Yes, great site. It’s my main source for iTunes covers, by the way. Some of these reissue CDs nowadays don’t even come with the original cover, which is a shame.
There’s some books by Graham Marsh you might be interested in. Along with “The Cover Art of Blue Note” there’s also “California Cool” and “East Coasting” (a.k.a. “New York Hot”), although the last two may be hard to find. A great source of inspiration, they feature LP-sized album covers.
christian
Great side indeed, I strongly suggest the book *Blue Note: Album Cover Art *, available on amazon.com, great showcase of the beautiful graphic design of the late Reid Miles, art director for the Blue Note collection. Back the ‘60s the Blue Note feeling wasn’t only about great music, but also from those great great covers featuring also beautiful shots taken by Alfred Lion. Strongly reccomended!
Diogo
Great find! i will definitely spend some time looking at them all.
Richard
Thanks for reminding me about Blue Note Antonio. I’ve got the book that Christian mentions in the loft somewhere and that top one, “spring” had a major effect on me when I first saw it.
christian
I’m so in love with the Blue Note design that I’ve made myself and got printed a couple of 50x100 cm. poster made of my all-time favourite BN records covers.
They look pretty good but I’m planning to have them re-printed on a special cool paper of some kind in the future. If anyone’s interested in high resolution pdf of the posters, no problem, drop a line here in the comments.
Antonio
@ christian
I’d love to see that poster. Send over the PDF. I’m definitely going to check out that book you recommended.
@Richard
The spring cover is perfect. I love it.
frank
Wow! Those are fantastic! Thanks!
kimblim
That “Unity”-cover was made into a huge poster that they used to have at Habitat in Manchester — I don’t know if it’s still available, but it could be out there somewhere. Oh, obviously it was absolutely amazing!
Savio
great selection. cannot find the hi res versions on the site you mentioned… does anyone know of any site where you can print these LP covers for non-commercial use
@christian: please send me the pdf of the posters, i would love to print them and stick them up on my wall.
nat
@christian — please could you send me the pdf of the posters, would love them
@kimblim — the Unity framed poster you are talking about is still available at Habitat — look at their website under “whats new” “Art Demand”