Win A Free Collectible: Blue Note Cover Art
OK, we’ve been putting up some interesting posts, but we’re not getting all that many comments these days, aside from Michel and Rudolf and a few of our other consistent (and always compelling) contributors. That means it must be time to give away another free collectible.
So, here it is, a new free giveaway contest from Jazz Collector, and it’s a Blue Note (no not an original copy of Candy by Lee Morgan, or even a second pressing of Newk’s Time by Sonny Rollins). It is (drum roll, please):
BLUE NOTE: THE ALBUM COVER ART
This is a 128-book of album cover art from the Blue Note catalogue, first published in 1991 by Chronicle Books. It features page after page of classic Blue Note covers from the 1950s and 1960s, featuring so many of the great designs by Reid Miles and photos by Francis Wolff. The book also includes a foreward by Horace Silver, which I will present in a separate post later in the week.
Best of all, the book will be given away FREE to one lucky reader of Jazz Collector. To be eligible to win all you have to do is
post a comment on the Jazz Collector site between now and the end of the day on July 2, when the contest will close. That’s all you have to do: Post a comment on the site, about anything you want, anytime, in response to any of our posts, including this one. I just did a post before about 78s. That might be one worth a comment. Or the post about the Savoy label. Or any of the other items I will post over the next two weeks.
At the end of the day on July 2, we will put all the entries into a hat and the lovely Mrs. Jazz Collector will pluck out the winning name. Then, we will send off the free copy of this book to the winner, anywhere in the world, at our own expense.
As we’ve mentioned several times when we’ve given away items in the past, we are just looking to create an incentive to generate comments and build community on the Jazz Collector site, and what better way than to give away a free jazz collectible. So please, keep those comments coming, or at least get those comments started. Just for fun, here are a couple more pictures from the book:
Awesome giveaway and great site!
This is a fine book : fine pictures, appropriate size, sharp colors. Anyway, many covers pictured are in fact, cheap reissues, japanese, or Liberty pressings. And the original design is somewhat altered on any of them. It would have been easy to find collecors to provide the real ones. This books suffers of the same problem as the Taschen for example. An accurate book about jazz covers remain to be done.
Just wanted to say how much I love the site. I don’t visit nearly enough but promise to start coming by more often. Good work!
Whenever you are feeling assured over the extent of your Blue Note collection just open this book. “Oh, I have that, and that, but don’t have that, or that, of that one, ohh, I NEED that one!”
I remember the first time I thumbed through a friend’s copy of this book. Lovely cover art, and excellent reference to remind you to spin a forgotten LP, or seek out one you are not familiar with. I found the following excellent Blue Note titles with the aid of this book – J. R. Monterose – “J. R. Monterose,” Grachan Moncur’s “Evolution,” and Hank Mobley’s “Workout”. Lovely, lovely book!
Michel, what is the “Taschen”? No doubt a German pocket book, as the name says. But what are the particulars of this book?
Well, it is a book about jazz covers…And quite disappointing one, IMO. It features jazz covers from every field and every era of Jazz :despite its title the comments are somewhat hesitating between music comments and design considerations : nothing of the two aspects is really satisfactory. But the book is of itnterest. Of course, as usual, (too) many Japanese or cheap reissues. In many other aspects (design, photography, fashion) Taschen is a furiously hype editor…curiously, this book is not. This is only my opinion, anyway. here’s the link :
http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/popculture/all/01899/facts.jazz_covers.htm
Greetings from Singapore!
i am a jazz fan collecting mainly Japan blue note.
just cam eback from Tokyo record shopping!
Thanks for a great website!
well done!
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