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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0811836886
ISBN-13: 9780811836883
Oct 2002
Publisher: Chronicle Books Llc
288 pages
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Blue Note album covers have always been considered among the finest examples of commercial art design. They were mostly the work of one man, Reid Miles, whose genius lay in the way he arranged and formatted the candid pictures of photographer Francis Wolff on the 10- and 12-inch record covers that formed his canvases. Using contemporary fonts, striking colors, and attention-grabbing slashes, Reid created a new vocabulary of album art. Featuring a well-chosen cross section of Reid's work, the generously proportioned BLUE NOTE: THE ALBUM COVER ART harks back to the pre-digital days of two-sided vinyl albums and typefaces that could be read without the aid of a microscope. Memorable images predominate: a young Dexter Gordon, the epitome of cool in a tab collar shirt, ruminates soulfully, cigarette held casually between his immaculately manicured fingers; the Ornette Coleman Trio huddle together against the stark background of a snow-covered park in Stockholm; and a woman's shapely calves sexily decorate the album cover to Sonny Clark's COOL STRUTTIN' album. With a foreword by the great pianist Horace Silver, BLUE NOTE is a fascinating tour through the wonder years of jazz album design.
| Size | | Length: | 288 pages | | Height: | 7.0 in | | Width: | 7.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 24.0 oz |
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