Blue Note 2: The Album Cover Art : The Finest in Jazz Since 1939

by Graham Marsh (Editor)

Depicts album covers from the 1950s through the 1990s for jazz recordings on the Blue Note record label featuring such performers as Sonny Rollins, Stanley Turrentine, Ornette Coleman, and Bobby Hutcherson

Genres: Music, Jazz

110 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Graham Marsh is an art director, illustrator and writer. He has written and art directed many ground-breaking visual books, including The Cover Art of Blue Note Records, Volumes I and II, East Coasting and California Cool. He has co-authored and art directed Denim – From Cowboys to Catwalks and a series of books with Tony Nourmand on movie posters. His most recent projects include The Ivy Look and an illustrated children’s book, Max and the Lost Note. He is also the creator of the Kamakura Vintage Ivy style shirts.
Graham’s illustrations have appeared in magazines, newspapers and on many CD and album covers. He has contributed to numerous publications including Country Life and Financial Times. He lives in Greenwich, south-east London.
Graham is the Art Director of The Rat Pack (R|A|P Two) and Weddings and Movie Stars.
He is the Art Director and Writer of Hollywood and The Ivy Look.

Reviews

[Phil Brett]

Possibly not quite as good as Volume One but that really is splitting and/or photography and/or jazz and/or cool then this book (and volume one) is for you.

You may be interested in this blog of mine in a series of looking at jazz album sleeves. http://philbrett.me/2015/05/13/cool-j...