#blue note
This record. On this rig. At low volume. Late night. Hot damn.
Ike Quebec ‘Blue & Sentimental’, Blue Note, 1962. Photograph by Francis Wolff, designed by Reid Miles.
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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers ‘A Night in Tunisia’, Blue Note, 1960. Designed by Reid Miles.
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Here is the cover for BLUE IN GREEN — the upcoming horror graphic novel by Ram V, Anand RK, Aditya Bidikar, and myself on design, published by Image Comics.
The A.V. Club has an exclusive first look: https://aux.avclub.com/jazz-meets-horror-in-this-exclusive-blue-in-green-first-1842311200
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Lee Morgan in the Blue Note Records stockroom at 47 West 63rd Street, NYC (1957).
If the numbers marked on the boxes are accurate, the records are fresh from the Plastylite pressing plant and waiting to be married with jackets.
Paul Chambers, Hank Mobley and Sonny Clark (seated) during the recording session for Mobley’s Hank Mobley BL 1568,June 23, 1957 (photo by Francis Wolff)
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Sonny Clark at hisMy Conceptionsession, March 29, 1959 in Hackensack, NJ (photo by Francis Wolff)
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Hank Mobley and Wynton Kelly at Mobley’sAnother Workoutsession, December 5, 1961 (photo by Francis Wolff)
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gentlemanlosergentlemanjunkie:
Jimmy Smith at the organ, but I am not sure who that is on tenor.
That’s Stanley Turrentine on tenor. One of the photos from this series by Francis Wolff was used as the cover for Smith’s 1963 release A Prayer Meetin’.
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Art Blakey and Grant Green listening to a playback during the recording session for Green’s Nigeria, January 13, 1962 (photo by Francis Wolff)
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Blue Note album cover geekout!!!!!!
Hank Mobley, Art Blakey, and Bobby Timmons at Blakey’s Just Coolin’ session, recorded March 8, 1959, in Rudy Van Gelder’s Hackensack NJ studio (photo by Francis Wolff)
Lee Morgan at a rehearsal for Reuben Wilson’s “Love Bug” session, New York City, March 1969 (Photo by Francis Wolff)
Lee Morgan, by Francis Wolff
Curtis Fuller at his Two Bones recording session, Hackensack NJ, January 22 1958 (photo by Francis Wolff)
RIP forever Curtis Fuller, you were the greatest trombone player I ever heard.
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