Comments on: Updating Some Jazz Vinyl Auctions

By: Mattyman

Mattyman — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:03:48 +0000

You’re spot on, Maarten. Speak Like a Child is an absolute beauty of a cover. One to frame, I’d say 😉

By: maartenkools

maartenkools — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:05:04 +0000

speak like a child (!!!!!)

By: maartenkools

maartenkools — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:56:31 +0000

jutta hipp at the hickory house, speakin’ my piece, let freedom ring, takin’ off, my point of view, steppin’ out,smoke stack, in’n out, some other stuff, it’s time!!!, spring . (all blue note).. reid miles is the king of typography.

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:52:35 +0000

Al: your weak spot for that horrifying anachronistic design of the re-issued Tenor Madness shows that collectors are just sentimentalsts.

By: brian

brian — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:32:03 +0000

Sonny Rollins’ Way Out West on Contemporary is a fun cover that I have always liked. And of course, great music lies within. Also like Red Garland’s Groovy on Prestige.

By: Mattyman

Mattyman — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:44:58 +0000

I have too many favourites to mention, so I'm just going to cough up a few right here from the top of my mind: Spring by Anthony Williams (could hang in a museum if you asked me), Ah Um by Charles Mingus, Monk's Music by Thelonious Monk Septet (priceless with Monk in that little red cart), This Is New by Kenny Drew, Six Pieces of Silver by Horace Silver and then so, so many others. Thank heavens I bought the original, album sized books of California Cool West Coast Cover Art and Cover Art of Blue Note volume 1 and volume 2 when they had just come out, 'cause now these originals are out of print and pretty expensive. These 'what are your favourite this or that' polls will remain impossible to answer, really.

By: elix

elix — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:58:13 +0000

There are so many great jazz album covers, but a few favorites(at least right now) are Jackie McLean’s “One Step Beyond,” Wayne Shorter’s “Night Dreamer,” Lee Morgan’s “Search for the New Land.” One of my least favorite is the record I just finished listening to, “Tender Moments” by McCoy Tyner. Great music, but the cover…the photo’s bad, the font’s terrible… Anyway, fun to see other people’s favorites.

By: lennib

lennib — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:25:58 +0000

Two of my favorite Prestige covers are chosen for their evocative images:

Red Garland: All Morning Long (original, tug boat on waterways photo) 7130

Frank Foster/D. Byrd All Day Long
7081

By: Al

Al — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:03:58 +0000

It’s not one of my favorites, but for some odd reason I’ve always liked the cover of the Prestige reissue of Tenor Madness, Prestige 7657. It’s sort of incongruous, a mid-’50s album with a picture of a much older Rollins with shaved head, heavy beard and dead-on glance off the center of the camera, seemingly rapt in what he’s about to play. I have a feeling my soft spot for the album may have more to do with the fact that this was one of the first jazz albums I ever bought and I loved the music immediately. It took me years to realize that there was another version with a different cover. Talk about naive.

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:09:10 +0000

Stevie: I think it is the casual way of the letter type and the green colour which catches the eye. It is a lovely cover indeed.
For the less successful (and/or ridiculous) covers of the fifties, Jazzwax, in its weekend edition, has a series named “Oddball cover of the week”. Fun guaranteed.