Jazz

Album: The Rumproller
Artist: Lee Morgan
Cover Artist: Reid Miles

I’m not sure what the concept behind the distorted text is and I’m not 100% confident “Rumproller” is meant to be a reference to shaking your booty. It’s a great name for a roller coaster though.
I do know that it stands out when browsing by tiny thumbnail on a music site. Although this was […]

Album: Old Grooves for New Streets
Artist: Way Out West
Cover Artist: Nicola Loder
Design Studio: Protein Design

This was another cover I noticed while doing updates to the ARIA awards site. It’s one that appeals to me as a designer but also as a photographer. The montage of seemingly thousands of photos is both beautiful and disturbing at the same time.

Album: Greatest Hits
Artist: Blood, Sweat & Tears
Cover Artist: Howard Fritzson

This was submitted by a reader who was shocked we hadn’t already posted it. You could probably guess from the previous albums posted we probably not big “BS&T” fans, or even born when this came out, but that wont stop us from posting it.

Album: Remixed Series
Artist: Verve
Cover Artist: Rick Guest, Hollis King, David Ellis
Design Studio: Graphic Theory

I’ve seen this around for years and I always thought it was “The Verve” remixed. Now I find it’s actually Jazz remixed I’m interested. Verve records has a good amount of info & media on the series here.
What makes this series stand out for me is the strong concept behind it. Each new cover is […]

Album: Imaginary Day
Artist: Pat Metheny Group
Cover Artist: Stefan Sagmeister
Design Studio: Sagmeister Inc.

It’s not often you see a cover use stock photos so extensively yet still remain an original and interesting cover. Sagmeister is known for his unique approach to design and as this was the 12th album by Pat Methany the obviously needed some way of making it different and stand out.
Every piece of text, except […]