Piano man
“Ellington Uptown” Duke Ellington and his Orchestra. Philips.
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(23 votes, average: 4.17 out of 5) Loading ...Richard Mantel is alive and well in New York
Richard Mantel, the bandit on the lower right, and I had lunch last week. Richard is an artist and a designer who spent years as an art director with Columbia Records in the sixties and seventies. We’ve been friends for many years. Around the time I met Richard, I was working with George Wein, who had this record over the fireplace behind his desk. Richard has also been the designer of all the beautiful Mosaic Records sets since that company began reissuing those amazing box sets of Blue Note, Commodore, Keynote and other label’s back catalogs. One of Richard’s most famous covers is Thelonious Monk “Underground” for which he won a Grammy award for best record cover design in 1969.
(71 votes, average: 4.72 out of 5) Loading ...The other basement tapes
“Basie’s Basement” (See Andy Warhol’s illustrated cover taken from this one)
(29 votes, average: 4.72 out of 5) Loading ...Harp and soul
Jazz harpist, Dorothy Ashby on Argo Records. After successfully integrating the harp into the hard bop and jazz funk idioms of the sixties, Ashby spent the next decade as an LA studio player on sessions with Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, Earth, Wind and Fire and others. Acid jazz DJ’s picked up on her early recording on Cadet and have sampled her stuff. This one is here for the striking and artistic cover photo of her hands plucking the strings. And you thought getting an upright bass to gigs is tough!
(31 votes, average: 4.16 out of 5) Loading ...From A to Chimpanzee
Marty Paich “Hot Piano” on Tampa Records. Red vinyl inside but look at this cool monkey cover.
(29 votes, average: 3.59 out of 5) Loading ...Louis Louis
“In a typical year, Louis Armstrong spent more than three hundred days on the road, bringing his music to audiences around the world. He always traveled with a steamer trunk designed to house two reel-to-reel tape decks and a turntable, and he carried a stash of music for his own listening pleasure… Read more and see other cool covers made by Satchmo himself at Stupefaction
(20 votes, average: 2.90 out of 5) Loading ...Bewitching
A beautiful, young Elizabeth Montgomery on this rarely seen early Sixties Japanese Lp “Invitation to Modern Jazz” on Japan Prestige. From 1964 – 1972, Montgomery played Samantha Stevens in ABC-TV’s hit series “Betwitched”.
(66 votes, average: 4.44 out of 5) Loading ...
Old school jazz
“Jazz at the College of the Pacific” Dave Brubeck Quartet featuring Paul Desmond, with Ron Crotty and Joe Dodge. Fantasy Records. 1955. Red Vinyl. Illustration by “AR”. (Thanks to S.B. Whitehead for identifying the illustrator as Arnold Roth)
(25 votes, average: 3.76 out of 5) Loading ...Bluesette
“BLUESette” Savoy Records. 1959. Curtis Fuller’s Quintet with Benny Golson, Tommy Flanagan, Jimmy Garrison and Al Harewood. DAMN. Just writing these names conjures up the feeling of soul jazz, hard bop and a time of amazing musical excitement. The songs here are It’s Alright With Me; Wheatleith Hall; I’ll Walk Alone; Arabia; and Judy’s Dilemma.
(20 votes, average: 3.90 out of 5) Loading ...
