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

David Stone Martin and his jazz album cover design. Notes and pictures from Birka Jazz Archive.

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

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

Miles Davis - 'Round About Midnight

Hard bop emerged in the 1950s, spearheaded by the likes of Horace Silver, Clifford Brown, Art Blakey, Jackie McLean and Sonny Rollins, who between them made some outstanding albums that still resonate loudly today

Jazzin' Seattle: album cover for jazz project in Seattle. #illustration #albumcover #albumcoverart #koldobarroso #commissionart #jazz #popart #retropopart #retro #seattle

Chet Baker Quartet - Pacific Jazz Records EP4-4 / photo/cover by William Claxton [Note: same cover design used for 10" LP]