{"id":17373,"date":"2015-02-02T12:50:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T12:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/?p=17373"},"modified":"2022-02-20T00:35:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T00:35:16","slug":"sleeve-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/?p=17373","title":{"rendered":"Sleeve Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

Album cover art<\/strong>\u00a0is often considered to be one of the \u201cextincted\u201d<\/em> fields in\"\"<\/a> modern graphics design. In times when digital copies are cheaper and quicker to get, album covers have somehow lost their importance as less and less customers actually buy CDs and LPs in the stores.<\/p>\n

\u2666 \u00a0THE ART OF THE ALBUM COVER\u21d0<\/a><\/strong> is an illustrated book with over 350 classic covers from seven decades and includes features that reveal how some of the most popular covers of all time were created as well as showcasing the work of key designers, art directors, photographers, artists and illustrators.<\/p>\n

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James \u00abJim\u00bb Flora\u00a0 <\/strong>[1914-1998] , best known for his distinctive and idiosyncratic album cover art for\u00a0RCA Victor<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Columbia Records<\/a>\u00a0during the 1940s and 1950s, was also a prolific commercial illustrator from the 1940s to the 1970s and the author\/illustrator of 17 popular children’s books.<\/p>\n

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\u25ca \u00a0\u2666 \u00a0\u00a0David Stone Martin <\/a>\u00a0\u21d3 \u00a0[1913-1992]<\/h6>\n

His album portraits, mostly done in distinctive heavy black-ink lines, included likenesses of Stan Getz, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Art Tatum, John Coltrane, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Jelly Roll Morton and Duke Ellington. Mr. Martin did nearly all the covers for the Asch, Clef<\/a> and Jazz at the Philharmonic<\/a> labels of the 1940’s and 1950’s.<\/p>\n

\u00abHe was essentially the first to develop an independent, serious image of jazz\u00bb<\/em> and provided \u00aban intimate insight into the music and life of jazz people\u00bb<\/em>\u00a0[Martina Schmitz].<\/p>\n

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. . . \u00abThat’s All\u00bb<\/strong><\/em> by Lester Young \u00a0\u21d3<\/p>\n