He made 10 jazz covers, including 4 for Blue Note, 4 for RCA Victor, 1 for Groove (a subsidiary label to RCA Victor), He also made some illustrations for record companies. Today he is famous for his vivid andīreathtaking close-up photographs of flowers and seashells.ĪNDY WARHOL started his career as commercial artist in the 1950s, making illstrations for fashion, includingĭrawings for magazines such as Vouge. Beside those, another memorableĬover is the close-up photograph on the Gigi Gryce LP for the Signal label (see the Various page). In the 1950s he worked for some record companys including Blue Note. Of Modern Art and his portfolios, photo essays, and articles have been published in major periodicals around the world His works are found in major museums including Museum HAROLD FEINSTEIN is one of the world's premier photographers. There were also some other designers involved in the Blue Note production during the years, notablyĪndy Warhol, Harold Feinstein and Tom Hannan. But in the beginning of theġ970s he turned his interest more to photography, and he also became a prominent producer of television commercials in Hollywood. Red Miles was a freelance designer and also worked for other labels, notably Prestige. But always in a harmonious blending of European modernist aesthetic and personality and inįace with the cool jazz cats and their music. Sometimes Reid Miles let Wolff´s expressive film noir-like photographyĭrive a cover, sometimes a funky typeface. His covers became a virtual trademark for Blue Note and gave the label a unique Reid Miles was influenced and inspiredīy his master and developed his style.
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Hermansader created the first eight covers in the 1500 series before Miles came in. When he left Hermansader´s studio for a job with Esquire magazine, It happened that the assistent Miles became involved in the design of Blue Note´s covers and he carried them out to Who was a freelance designer working for Blue Note from his studio in New York. The long running 4000 series (see next page).īefore Reid Miles took over as art director at Blue Note, he had worked as assistent to John Hermansader, After that Blue Note changed the catalogue numbering to Thus in total 99 LP albums were issued in this 1500 series between 19. + the little "bastard" at the end - The 3 Sounds LP, which has number 1600. The first gem in the 1500 series is Miles Davis (1501) and the last is Bennie Green (1599) To be assocoiated with New York hard bop. RED MILES took over as the label´s art director and he defined a style that came Hard bop style of New York BLUE NOTE started the 12" LP era in mid 1950s with some trad jazz albums, but then launched the Krog and Garbarek, greats in Norwegian jazzĮsquire and Tempo, classic labels in British jazz Montmartre, Debut Records and the heydays in Danish jazz The LPs in the 1950s, and Swedish jazz abroad The EP era and Metronome Records in 1950s Roost, Signal, Storyville, Tampa, Transition, United Artists, Vee Jay, and more
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Scroll down and use the links to browse this comprehensive archive of rare jazz album coversĪrtist-operated jazz label with Mingus & RoachĪBC-Paramount, Aladdin, Argo, Capitol, Coral, Dawn, Decca,Įpic, Fantasy, HiFi, Imperial, Jazzland, Jazz West, Jubilee, Mercury, Mode, and more Records we have bought and sold over the years - the rare and the beautiful!īirka Jazz record store is closed but Birka Jazz Archive is still available. Even if you delete a photo, the person you shared it with may have saved a copy.Blue Note 1500 series - jazz album covers To delete the album, open the album and click More Delete album.Click the photo that you want to delete.
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