Driving Flip Phillips
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Jammin’
Norman Granz. Clef Records. Jam Session #4 Side one: “Oh Lady Be Good.” Side two: “Blues for the Count.” All-star jazz ensemble including Count Basie, Sweets Edison, Stan Getz, Wardell Grey, Buddy DeFranco, Benny Carter, Freddie Green, Buddy Rich, Willie Smith and John Simmons.
Another classic David Stone Martin cover illustration.
(18 votes, average: 4.72 out of 5) Loading ...Double exposure
The music of Slim Gaillard and Dizzie Gillespie packaged by lo-budget Halo with weird, incongruous cover art. Something’s fishy here.
(19 votes, average: 3.63 out of 5) Loading ...Sonny and warm
“Breezing” (1960) by Sonny Red with Yusef Lateef, Blue Mitchell and Barry Harris on Jazzland records. This is a great jazz record and “Brother B” – the first track is one of my favorites.
Orin Keepnews produced. Cover designed by Ken Deardoff.
Jazzland was an offshoot of Riverside. I once bought a collection of 200 original Riverside jazz records in absolutely mint condition from a guy in Avon, Connecticut who said that he had worked at the label 30 years earlier. It was one of the best discoveries of my record hunting days.
(11 votes, average: 4.64 out of 5) Loading ...Having a Ball
Hard bop trombonist Al Grey session on Argo records. Recorded in 1963 at Van Gelder’s, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Cover photo by Jim Marshall. Cover Design by Don Bronstein. This record includes the killer cut “Something’s Got a Hold on Me.”
With David Burns on Trumpet; Hugh Lawson on Piano; Calvin Newborne, Guitar; Herman Wright on Bass; Otis Finch on Drums and Robert J. Hutcherson on Vibes.
(13 votes, average: 4.08 out of 5) Loading ...Workout Hank Mobley
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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