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Post by nicknick on Nov 17, 2017 17:29:04 GMT
Apparently we have not yet mentioned here the sad fact that A.R. Penck passed away last May.
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Post by alunsevern on Nov 17, 2017 20:12:08 GMT
No, we haven't. I'll admit I had to Google him to find out who he was. Sorry.
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Post by nicknick on Nov 24, 2017 20:50:31 GMT
Very beautiful cover of the second LP of the Wayne Shorter's triptych on Columbia:
Wayne Shorter - Phantom Navigator (Columbia, 1987). Wayne Shorter got inspiration for this album in his own hand-made comic book Other Worlds (1949) a fragment of which enclosed into the cover:
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Post by nicknick on Nov 26, 2017 17:30:27 GMT
Jaki Byard Trio – Sunshine of My Soul (Prestige, 1968). I hate the cover as much as I love music on this LP. I seriously believe that this cover designed by Irving Riggs with the use of a fragment of earlier Don Schlitten's photo of Byard (please check the cover of Jaki Byard - Out Front! (Prestige, 1965) is the worst and tawdriest in all Byard's discography. The music, however, is wonderful. And I like the Maestro's statement: Don’t mess with my music. If you want to listen to it, listen; if you don’t, don’t. But don’t tell me how to play. |
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Post by sztiv on Nov 26, 2017 18:37:56 GMT
Not sure why you hate it so much. It reminds me a little bit of this one from the same year..  |
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Post by nicknick on Nov 26, 2017 19:04:58 GMT
Oh, I think this Lloyd's cover is similarly (and sadly) awful:-(
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Post by sztiv on Nov 26, 2017 19:55:19 GMT
I'm not a huge fan of either of them but flower power sold a lot of products in 1968, well at least on this side of the Iron Curtain it did.
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Post by nicknick on Nov 27, 2017 7:58:31 GMT
From my perspective, neither Jaki Byard nor Charles Lloyd had any relation to Flower Power movement. So such attempts to insert them into the fashion trend seem rather ridiculous or even painful.
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Post by alunsevern on Nov 27, 2017 9:26:14 GMT
I'm afraid I'm with Nick on this. I've always hated the Charles Lloyd cover (and there are others of his too that I dislike!), and the Byard is a disgrace. You're right, Sztiv, in saying that flowerpower and hippiedom *did* sell a lot of records, but there are -- or were -- tasteful ways to climb on the bandwagon...and (as Nick says) "tawdry" ways. This -- to my mind, anyway -- is a tasteful example (if not an especially marvellous record): John Surman/JOhn McLaughlin: WHERE FORTUNE SMILES.  |
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Post by saxoblues on Nov 27, 2017 10:09:42 GMT
another flower power cover  |
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Post by nicknick on Nov 27, 2017 12:11:49 GMT
This -- to my mind, anyway -- is a tasteful example (if not an especially marvellous record): John Surman/JOhn McLaughlin: WHERE FORTUNE SMILES. Never seen a fold out poster inserted into the cover of this original edition on. My copy is a 1974 reissue on PYE with different (and worse) cover):-( |
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Post by alunsevern on Nov 27, 2017 12:22:31 GMT
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Post by nicknick on Nov 27, 2017 13:03:42 GMT
Thank you, Alun. I know these photos (and perhaps the text too), they are included into booklet of my CD edition on One Way Records (with great original cover!).
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Post by sztiv on Nov 28, 2017 10:35:24 GMT
I guess the power of the record companies over "their" artists was reaching its zenith in this period. Not sure either Lloyd or Byard would have liked these covers either. The Strata covers from a couple of years later show what can be done when the artist takes back control.
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Post by nicknick on Nov 30, 2017 18:25:10 GMT
Amarcord Nino Rota (Hannibal, 1981) LP. Front cover photograph by Franko Pinna from the book Fellini Films (1976). The first of four LPs in the series of tributes made by producer Hal Willner. Other LPs are as follows: That’s The Way I Feel Now – A Tribute To Thelonious Monk (A&M, 1984) 2LP; Lost In The Stars – The Music Of Kurt Weil (A&M, 1985); Stay Awake – Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disneys Films (A&M, 1988). Then there was wonderful Weird Nightmare - Meditations on Mingus (1992, Columbia), CD only, which cover also had a photograph by Franko Pinna from the same book (and from the same film).
Thus we can say the circle closed.
I found the LP in the Paris Jazz Corner record store which was then located at 5, rue de Navarre. The album begins and ends with Jaki Byard's solo pieces Amarcord and La Strada.
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