Everything about the Blue Note label in the late 1950s and early 1960s bespoke cool. Musicians such as Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Hank Mobley and Jackie McLean cut their best works there, creating the ...

I bought jazz albums so became more familiar with this cover art. The photos of Bill Claxton and Chuck Stewart, the graphics of Reid Miles on the classic Blue Note sides are what I know best. I also ...

Four of 2024’s standout jazz albums came from saxophonists Immanuel Wilkins, 27, Charles McPherson, 85, Charles Lloyd, 86, and Marshall Allen, 100.

He Made Jazz Visual William Claxton, the photographer responsible for some of the most iconic jazz album covers, died this week. John spoke to him last year at OCMA's "Birth of the Cool" Exhibit.

Various: Pure Cool album review by AAJ Staff, published on January 22, 2003. Find thousands jazz reviews at All About Jazz!

I have been a fan of jazz album cover art for a long time, and have written about some of my favorite cover art. I’ve also enjoyed earlier books devoted to cover art such as Eric Kohler’s In The ...