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Workout Hank Mobley

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The pinnacle of style and grace, Blue Note records set the bar for lp cover graphic design, photography, typography and quality.   The label also produced many of the greatest jazz recordings of the fifties and sixties and featured a roster of the music’s greatest composers and musicians.   Owners Francis Wolff and Alfred Lion together with producer and engineer Rudy Van Gelder and art director /graphic designer Reid Miles helped define jazz visually as well as musically during the music’s greatest period of innovation and achievement.   Wolff photographed every session and his pictures were most often used on the covers.

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The Flip Hank Mobley

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Green Street Grant Green

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Dig Dis

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Soul Station Hank Mobley Blue Note Records

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Les Kili-cats

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Auto erotica

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Excuse the reflection.   This one is a favorite that I have framed.

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Fan tangos

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Disco’s greatest tits

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Risque business

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A note from mom

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Caligraphy by Andy Warhol’s mother. Designed by Reid Miles. Written by Stewart Preston. A rare Moondog lp on Prestige. 1957.

 

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