
Vinyl mania. Jazz LP covers from the 1940s to 1990s. This volume features a broad selection of jazz record covers from the 1940s through the decline of LP production in the early 1990s. Each cover is accompanied by with a fact sheet listing performer & album name art director photographer illustrator year label & more. Special features for jazz lovers include a top-10 favorite records list by leading jazz Djs King Britt Michael Mc Fadden Gilles Peterson Andre Torres & Rainer Truby as well as interviews with legendary jazz personalities Rudy Van Gelder (sound engineer that recorded for many labels such as Blue Note Impulse! & Prestige) Creed Taylor (founder of many labels & one of the best jazz producers ever credited also for bringing bossa nova to the US & fusing it with jazz) Michael Cuscuna (Blue Note jazz producer & catalogue researcher responsible for its most successful re-editions) Bob Ciano (designer at the CTI Label founded in the 70s by Creed Taylor & one of the greatest cover designers ever) & Ashley Kahn (writer critic & journalist for jazz whose books include A Love Supreme" " Kind of Blue" & " The House That Trane Built")."