June 26, 2004
Vintage Album Covers
Check out these vintage jazz album covers. It interesting that they're all from a rather limited palette—lots of cyans, blues, and reds—but still very cool. Being a chess nut, I really like this one.
(via Conscientious)
Yeah those are yummy. There are some great books out there that deal with jazz covers specifically. I like the time frame of the late 50's and early to mid 60's in that it was so forward looking and futuristic and was parelleled almost everywhere within the visual spectrum of the time, be it all of the great minimalist modern artwork, or the credits and poster work in movies, general advertising, book covers, and of course the records of the time. It was also great in the sense that so much of the work was hand made and had a great organic, almost primal quality that danced hand in hand with this brand new age that the world was moving into. Like I said; yummy stuff man.
btw- I really liked the Tal Farrow Quartet cover and the Lionel Hampton "Jazztime Paris" covers. The latter reminds me of Psycho.
Yeah, back when everybody thought we'd have flying cars by now. On a related note, there's a short story called "The Gernsback Continuum" that deals with an parallel world that's created by all these futuristic fantasies. I believe it's in the "Mirrorshades" SF anthology edited by Bruce Sterling. The story itself is by William Gibson and I just found a copy of it online:
http://lib.ru/GIBSON/r_contin.txt
Can you recommend some specific titles that deal with jazz covers?