Both a comprehensive guide to an acclaimed label, and an insightful snapshot of graphic design history, The Cover Art of Blue Note Records is a must-have for all Jazz fans. Alongside over 400 of the record label's best album covers is a selection of short essays written by leading industry figures.

Featuring iconic covers for artists such as Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins and Art Blakey, this anthology is an evocative piece of Jazz history. After establishing a rapport, Reid Miles became the designer for the Blue Note label for the next eleven years creating wonderful graphic covers that were both unique and also retaining the indefinable Blue Note look. , a commercial artists and a devout classical music fan. WW2 slowed recording activity until 1944 when Lion (then thirty-four) started to record a more contemporary sound with Ike Quebec, who became the A&R man for the label. Around January 1956 the photographer Francis Wolff and Alfred Lion of Blue Note Records met Reid Miles. Frfattare: Graham Marsh, Glyn Callingham Illustratr: Over 400 colour photographs Format: Inbunden ISBN: 9781911163701 Sprk: Engelska Antal sidor: 240. He started Blue Note in 1939 with Meade Lux Lewis and Albert Ammons as the first stars of the label. 4 Though the blues scale has 'an inherent minor tonality, it is commonly 'forced' over major-key chord changes. 1 2 3 The lowered fifth is also known as the raised fourth.

Includes a foreword by Horace Silver, composer and musician. The Cover Art of Blue Note Records is Graham Marsh and Glyn Callingham's classic collection of the unparalleled record sleeves produced by the celebrated Blue Note record label. The blue notes are usually said to be the lowered third, lowered fifth, and lowered seventh scale degrees. The Cover Art of Blue Note: The Collection brings together all the finest Blue Note album covers. The Cover Art of Blue Note Records: The Collection

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