What can you tell about your baby by the way it cries?   “Sound Diagnosis.”   Pfizer presents.   What a cool, freaky, horror film, dada cover!

(38 votes, average: 3.97 out of 5)

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“Spares and Strikes Forever…Don Carter with Chris Schenkel. Cameo Records. Obama could have used this before Pennsylvania

(22 votes, average: 3.23 out of 5)

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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)

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“Basie’s Basement”   (See Andy Warhol’s illustrated cover taken from this one)

(29 votes, average: 4.72 out of 5)

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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)

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“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)

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“The Sound of New York” A Music-Sound Portrait. (1959) Written by Kenyon Hopkins. Produced by Creed Taylor. ABC-Paramount’s Aristocrat Series. Kenyon Hopkins is already represented on Lp Cover Lover with his soundtracks “The Hustler” and “Baby Doll.”

Frank Rehak, Wayne Andre, Jimmy Cleveland, Frank Saracco (tb); Bill Hixon (b-tb); Phil Woods (as); Ray Beckenstein (as, bs, b-cl, f); Harold Feldman (as, oboe); Phil Bodner (eng hrn, f); Barry Galbraith, Mundel Lowe (g); Wendell Marshall (b); Osie Johnson, Phil Kraus, Joe Venuto (perc); The Geri Beitzel Singers (vcl); Rudolph Desco (voice); Keene Crockett (sound effects); Kenyon Hopkins (arr).

a. The Sound Of New York (Arrival) (Kenyon Hopkins) – 2:29

b. Manhattan(Rodgers/Hart) – 2:44

c. Taxi Ride (Kenyon Hopkins) – 2:09

d. Take The “A” Train (Subway) (Billy Strayhorn) – 2:50

e. Waterfront (Kenyon Hopkins) – 2:59

f. Penthouse Serenade (Cocktail Party) (Jason/Burton) – 2:34

g. East Side, West Side(Fifth Avenue Parade) – 2:08

h. Construction (Kenyon Hopkins) – 2:06

i. Chinatown, My Chinatown (Chinese New Year) (Jerome/Schwartz) – 2:22

j. Coney Island Visit (Kenyon Hopkins) – 3:16

k. Lullaby Of Broadway(Dubin/Warren) – 2:5

l. The Sound Of New York (Departure) (Kenyon Hopkins) – 1:36

(39 votes, average: 4.38 out of 5)

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On Damp Records!

(19 votes, average: 2.63 out of 5)

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Don West “Hands”

(24 votes, average: 2.33 out of 5)

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