The Cover Art of Blue Note Records - Hardcover

Graham Marsh

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 185585919X ISBN 13: 9781855859197

Publisher: Collins & Brown, 2002

Synopsis

The jazz company Blue Note Records has always had a reputation for producing fine album covers, and in its heyday was the most successful and influential of all the classic jazz record companies. The Cover Art of Blue Note: The Collection brings together all the finest Blue Note album covers. Includes a foreword by Horace Silver, composer and musician who greatly influenced the evolution of jazz in the 1950s. Atmospheric photographs by Miles Reid capture some of the great jazz musicians recording at the Blue Note studios. Promoting a stylistic way of thinking and influencing many of today's trends in graphic art with their pioneering use of typography, the covers present sophisticated images of fashion and personal flair that mirrored the taste and integrity of the records themselves. The Blue Note label embodied one word: style.

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About the Author

Graham Marsh has worked as a magazine art director, illustrator and fashion journalist since the sixties. He has been a confirmed Americaphile since his first visit to New York and has always been interested in the connection between music and fashion. He lives and works in London. Glyn Callingham runs the legendary Ray's Jazz Shop in London. He has worked on several Blue Note compilation CDs and writes for a number of jazz magazines.

Edition details

• Publisher: Collins & Brown
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 185585919X
• ISBN 13: 9781855859197
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288