These covers were all done old-school, with analogue photography and hand-painted art. I want to recommend some wonderful books that celebrate album cover art: In the Groove/Vintage Record Graphics by ...

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 ...

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.

On Curtis Fuller’s eponymous 1957 album, Lion directs his camera straight into the bell of Fullers trombone, the black hole eating up most of the cover space. The high contrast photo is screened in ...

Jazz is surely the coolest type of music in the world and, on this new Blue Note compilation, some of the masters of the idiom demonstrate why. Opening with the subtle smoke of Chet Baker’s opening ...

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