Lion’s portrait of Smith is screened in an appropriate blue, and Miles-styled title typography runs right across the middle in white — all caps, straight forward and simple. Type design dominates Art ...

The Bad Plus Tests Jazz’s Boundaries by Exploding the Art of the Cover Song “There’s no road map for how a jazz band approaches this music.

Cover Art heralds the NEXT Collective: Seven musicians— Logan Richardson (flute and alto saxophone), Walter Smith III (bass clarinet and tenor saxophone), Matthew Stevens (guitar), Gerald Clayton ...