Reid Miles designed some 350 Blue Note Records album covers between 1956 and 1967. A visual field guide to the fonts he used most -- Trade Gothic, Franklin Gothic, Ultra Bodoni, News Gothic, Clarendon, Caslon 540 -- and the jazz album covers where they swing hardest.
Kissa Kissa's 5,000-LP library is not random. Here's the curatorial philosophy behind the collection -- and why every record earned its place on the shelf.
Wayne Shorter’s Blue Note debut as a leader -- six originals with Lee Morgan, McCoy Tyner, Reggie Workman, and Elvin Jones. The album where jazz’s greatest composer found his voice.
Sonny Clark's final Blue Note date as a leader — a hard bop masterclass recorded fourteen months before his death, featuring Tommy Turrentine, Charlie Rouse, a rare Ike Quebec guest spot, and a rhythm section that swings like it has nowhere else to be.
Impulse! Records gave jazz its avant-garde edge. From Coltrane to Pharoah Sanders, explore the label that made jazz dangerous -- and why its records still matter on vinyl.
