Damn, that’s actually a cool cover
photography for jazz album art is in a sad state. very safe professional photos around new york or in a studio. criss cross, steeplechase, highline, smoke sessions. every label has the squarest art known to man music is tight though
>>130283709You're looking at it through rose tinted glasses, a lot from the time just had a picture of them looking at the camera or posing over an instrument.
>>130283709>>130283808blue note was too high of a mark, we haven't ever been able to reach this level again
>>130283709rate this jazz album cover
>>130283816blue note was the peak of graphic design as a discipline
>>130283808Yeah, and as your example shows, it still looked sick as hell.
>>130283522Why does the sight of a dude smoking le epic ciggie make normalfags feel like cumming?
>>130283816>60 years later and this aesthetic still hasn't been toppedHow did they do it?
>>130283522>fart cakey and the ass massagers
>>130283522Verse 1]Something filled upMy heart with nothingSomeone told me not to cryBut now that I'm olderMy heart's colderAnd I can see that it's a lie[Verse 2]Children, wake upHold your mistake upBefore they turn the summer into dustIf the children don't grow upOur bodies get bigger but our hearts get torn upWe're just a million little gods causing rain stormsTurning every good thing to rustI guess we'll just have to adjust[Bridge]With my lightning bolts a-glowingI can see where I am going to beWhen the reaper he reaches and touches my hand[Outro]With my lightning bolts a-glowingI can see where I am goingWith my lightning bolts a-glowingI can see where I am go-goingYou better look out below!
>>130283816pure kino soul
>>130283522People used to just blow the cig smoke straight into their own eyes and it didn't bother them at all
>>130283816>>130287486>>130290841Looks like every single Various Artists compilation ever made in the late 90s-early 00s.
>>130290900Show me 13 and a half examples.
>>130287705>I like to think of fire held in a man’s hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what great things have come from such hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind–and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression.
>>130290900
Jazz serves a cultural function in the music scene. It is a signifier for musical "adulthood." To embrace jazz is to don a kind of graduation cap, signifying a broadening of tastes outside "mere" rock music. This ostentatious display of "sophistication" is an insult, and I find the graduation cappers transparent and tedious. Certainly there must be interesting music one could call "jazz." There must be. I've never heard it, but I grant that it is out there somewhere.Jazz has a non-musical parallel: Christiania, the "free" zone in Copenhagen. In Christiania, like in jazz, there is no law. People are left to their own inventions to create and act as they see fit. In Jazz, the musicians are allowed to improvise over and beside structural elements that may themselves be extemporaneous. Sounds good, doesn't it? Freedom -- sounds good.The reality is much bleaker. Christiania is a squalid, trashy string of alleys with rag-and-bone men selling drugs, tie-dye and wretched food. Granted Total Freedom, and this is what they've chosen to do with it, sell hash and lentil soup? Jazz is similar. The results are so far beneath the conception that there is no English word for the dissappointment one feels when forced to confront it. Granted Total Freedom, you've chosen to play II V I and blow a goddamn trill on the saxophone? Only by willfully ignoring its failings can one pretend to appreciate it as an idiom and don the cap.- Steve Albini
>>130292224he was right about everything
>>130287135bring back taking art seriouslyRETVRN 2 REVERENCE
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