We love this!  To celebrate the television series Homeland and its season 2 finale on December 16th, Californian designer Ty Mattson of Mattson Creative created an excellent series of 12 Homeland inspired vintage jazz record covers.  “Last night was the finale of the second season of Homeland. To say that I am a huge fan would be an understatement! As a personal project, I set out to create a series of designs to celebrate the award-winning show. Playing off of the subtle theme of jazz that appears the storyline, I designed 12 vintage record covers inspired by the TV series.”

(33 votes, average: 3.58 out of 5)

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Cocinando Twist a la Mexicana  Kay Perez y su Grupo  Dimsa Records (Mexico)

(14 votes, average: 3.71 out of 5)

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Here’s “Soul Sides” a funky soul jazz cut from Art Farmer’s “Gentle Eyes” 1972 album on Mainstream.  This and many other cool records from the LP Cover Lover archives are up for auction today here on eBay.  Dig it!

(17 votes, average: 3.47 out of 5)

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Ella and Louis Vol. 3  Karusell Records (Sweden) (1957)  Under a Blanket of Blue / Can’t We Be Friends // April in Paris

(31 votes, average: 4.52 out of 5)

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Compendium of Jazz #1  Verve Records  (1957)  A compilation of Verve jazz artists including Count Basie, Stan Getz, Charlie Parker and others.  (This guy is Freddy Morgan!)

(35 votes, average: 4.06 out of 5)

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Junior Mance Touch  Polydor Records (1973)  Album design by Jack Lonshein  Photograhpy by Ron Meyers  Includes covers of Al Green, Johnny Nash and George Harrison.

(36 votes, average: 3.83 out of 5)

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“Fill Your Head With Jazz”  25 All-Time Giants of Jazz   A groovy, two-record compilation from the vaults of Columbia Records.  I had this as a kid and it introduced me to a lot of these cats.  I pulled it out this past winter to play the Lambert, Hendricks and Ross vocal of “Moanin'” for my friend.  Sadly, in my excitement, I laid it on the radiator and the remaining disk got baked and warped into an ashtray.  And I don’t smoke.  Now I’m really moanin’!

(39 votes, average: 3.62 out of 5)

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“Jazzercise”  As Seen On TV  $8.99 As Advertised  With Top Instructor Carol O’Halloran  “Look Great.  Feel Great.   Have Fun.”

(46 votes, average: 3.46 out of 5)

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Monk’s Moods   The Thelonious Monk Trio   Prestige Records (Holland) Dutch cover photo.   Thelonious Monk piano, Gary Mapp or Percy Heath bass, Art Blakey or max Roach drums.     Recorded in 1953

(54 votes, average: 3.41 out of 5)

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“Chicken & Dumplin’s”   Bobby Timmons   Prestige Records   Bobby Timmons (p, vib) Lee Otis Bass III (b) Billy Saunders (d)   Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, July 12, 1965

Chicken And Dumplin’s   /   The Telephone Song / Ray’s Idea / A Sunday Kind Of Love / The Return Of Genghis Khan

Bobby played his soulful gospel-tinged jazz piano on many of the greatest jazz albums of the late 1950’s and early 60’s –   including classics with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (1958-1961), Cannonball Adderley, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, Donald Byrd, Sonny Stitt, Chet Baker and Kenny Dorham (with whom he made his recording debut in 1956).   He composed the standards “Moanin'”, “Dat Dere”, and “This Here”

Bobby died In March 1974 from cirrhosis at the age of 38, in New York.

(35 votes, average: 3.34 out of 5)

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