Archive for the tag 'Mid-Century'


More Blue Note: Blakey, Hancock, Hubbard, Shorter

If you enjoyed my mid-century jazz post a couple weeks ago, I’ve got another round of essentials for you to steam on, this time all chosen directly from Blue Note releases, and each accompanied with the corresponding beautiful Reid Miles-directed cover art. I am beginning to think that in order to understand mid-century design style […]


Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Sonny Clark

Just this past weekend, I was treated to a Sunday afternoon with my friend Chris’ massive collection of CDs, which includes a ton of essential jazz albums from the likes of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk and Sonny Clark. I may have mentioned in past posts that some of the most prolific design inspiration […]