JAZZ album covers with really BAD photos of the musician(s) therein...

[Rooster_Ties]

Blue Mitchell's "Graffiti Blues" gave me the idea for this thread...

I know that's not quite the original cover, but the photo is the same. Here's the original, only much bigger.

(I started another thread earlier to confirm that the pic really was of Blue, and it was). What an ugly picture -- what were they thinking???

Other JAZZ album covers with bad or unflattering pics of the musician(s) found on said records??

Has to be actual photographs -- no painted or drawn covers.

Edited October 21, 2008 by Rooster_Ties

[B. Clugston]

Coltrane's Meditations is out of focus and poorly composed.

[mjzee]

[AndrewHill]

Coltrane's Meditations is out of focus and poorly composed.

I like this album cover, which gives the impression that the music therein is pretty intense, which in fact it is! I'm not sure what you mean by 'poorly composed'. Do you mean the album cover or the music?

Edited October 21, 2008 by Holy Ghost

[AndrewHill]

I like the album cover of Lee's Delightfulee too

[AndrewHill]

However, I never found this cover photo of Miles very flattering:

[Chas]

Had to bring this one back up....

And in the same Halloweenish spirit , we have this ode to bad lighting :

[RDK]

There's a b&w Louis Armstrong cover (very up-close pic) that's frightening.

[AndrewHill]

Jackie looks a little too strung out on this one:

[Cyril]

[B. Clugston]

Coltrane's Meditations is out of focus and poorly composed.

I like this album cover, which gives the impression that the music therein is pretty intense, which in fact it is! I'm not sure what you mean by 'poorly composed'. Do you mean the album cover or the music?

Cover. There's half a bass and a severed arm growing out of Coltrane's back.

But I've always loved the cover of Way Out West.

[Cyril]

[Free For All]

One of my favorite all-time covers. I have a reproduction on my wall.

[Popkin]

I always thought Pearson looked like a bit of a creep here.

Edited October 21, 2008 by Popkin

[Popkin]

. . . and Lee Morgan has looked better.

[Niko]

. . . and Lee Morgan has looked better.

but anyway he certainly wasn't a good-looking man so maybe it's a bit unfair to post his album covers here

[Aggie87]

I don't really care for the Sweet Honey Bee cover either. It's too barren or plain or something, and not a good color. Kind of like this one:

[bluesbro]

Do we need to see these guys biting a sandwich?

[Popkin]

I don't know, I sometimes think lee morgan was sort of good-looking

[Niko]

maybe we can agree that he had a very strong/characteristic/extreme face in some sense and that the thing with the ears could be much worse

[Popkin]

I think one of Morgan's biggest problems was a fondness for questionable haircuts:

[AndrewHill]

Personally, I rank this album cover as the quintessential 'hip' cover!

[RDK]

I don't really care for the Sweet Honey Bee cover either. It's too barren or plain or something, and not a good color. Kind of like this one:

I agree. It's almost worthy of 32 Jazz.

[Niko]

I don't really care for the Sweet Honey Bee cover either. It's too barren or plain or something, and not a good color. Kind of like this one:

I agree. It's almost worthy of 32 Jazz.

i can't find the cover that bad... my copy has a stronger orange and a bluer blue though... now if they had made big john's read and the background in a nice light green... that would have been something (looking at the cover i find it hard to imagine how miles had originally colored it ...)

Edited October 21, 2008 by Niko

[AndrewHill]

(looking at the cover i find it hard to imagine how miles had originally colored it ...)

Right. Wasn't this album cover design discovered in a 'black and white' format with no color? Kind of unfair to judge since we don't know what colors Reid would've used.