High-style LP Covers w/ Architecture front and center

[Rooster_Ties]

I know I started another "Album Covers with Buildings" thread several years ago (I'll have to look for it too), but I'm looking to frame about four (4) LP covers for my office where I work (at a prominent architecture museum in Washington DC), and am looking for some iconic covers to include. Could be all Blue Note, but wouldn't necessarily have to be all BN.

The very first one that comes to mind is, or course, Larry Young's Into Somethin' -- and is perhaps THE model of what I'm looking for other examples of...

I'm temped to maybe also include stuff with architectural details, like Bobby Hutcherson's Compenents too...

Ideally whatever I pick, I'd rather the architecture to really be front and center, and the main concept of the cover, rather than a picture that happens to include buildings (of which there were a lot of in the other thread).

Many thanks!! -- Rooster

Also tempting, Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch...

And also Freddie Hubbard - Goin' Up...

Edited November 7, 2014 by Rooster_Ties

[Rooster_Ties]

These might also qualify -- gonna be tough to narrow down my choices to just 4!

Joe Henderson - Page One

Herbie Hancock - Inventions and Dimensions...

[Chuck Nessa]

[Rooster_Ties]

Maybe (just maybe) some modernist sculpture?

Andrew Hill - Smokestack...

PS: It's tempting to also include Hill's Judgment, but the brick-wall background isn't quite "sculptural" or "modern" enough for what I'm looking for, tempting though it may be!

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[Rooster_Ties]

And here's the previous thread I started, some 7 going on 8 years ago!

[ejp626]

If you are soliciting opinion, then don't let your love of the album distract you. Of the ones up so far, I think architects would only dig Into Somethin', Up Up Up and possibly Symphony for Improvisers. I definitely think focusing on a single building rather than a cityscape (like the Hancock) is going to work better.

In terms of iconic building covers, it's hard to forget this one:

[Rooster_Ties]

If you are soliciting opinion, then don't let your love of the album distract you. Of the ones up so far, I think architects would only dig Into Somethin', Up Up Up and possibly Symphony for Improvisers. I definitely think focusing on a single building rather than a cityscape (like the Hancock) is going to work better.

Definitely. Of those I've posted here to this thread, I agree, Into Somethin' and Goin' Up (which I presume is what you meant by "Up Up Up") -- are the two best.

And I agree that cityscapes, much as I love them, are going to be of less interest.

[clifford_thornton]

Components = stuff from the fastener bins at a hardware store, not architectural details.

[Jim R]

Not iconic, but...

[Shawn]

[ejp626]

If you are soliciting opinion, then don't let your love of the album distract you. Of the ones up so far, I think architects would only dig Into Somethin', Up Up Up and possibly Symphony for Improvisers. I definitely think focusing on a single building rather than a cityscape (like the Hancock) is going to work better.

Definitely. Of those I've posted here to this thread, I agree, Into Somethin' and Goin' Up (which I presume is what you meant by "Up Up Up") -- are the two best.

And I agree that cityscapes, much as I love them, are going to be of less interest.

Yes, that is what I meant.

Perhaps too soon, but this is another possibility.

Here's someone with the same idea: http://architizer.com/blog/kickoff-sxsw-20-architectural-album-covers/

Of this set, the Streets LP might be worth considering.

[soulpope]

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[soulpope]

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[Cyril]

[ejp626]

I like the Secret Museum cover. Is that a real place or Photo-shopped together?

[soulpope]

I like the Secret Museum cover. Is that a real place or Photo-shopped together?

The photographer is Elio Ciol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elio_Ciol

and the "Secret Museum" shot was made in Firenze /Tuscany/Italy in 1960

he made a number of fantastic photographs like the following :

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[clifford_thornton]

I think the Lenox Avenue Breakdown cover was based on a really nice Niklaus Troxler painting.

love that shot of Harold Land in front of the Watts Towers, which I guess you could call a massive sculptural installation...

[Chuck Nessa]

Or a "poor man's Gaudi".

[Milestones]

Cool stuff. I'd venture to say that Out to Lunch, Smokestack, Harold in the Land of Jazz, and Lenox Avenue Breakdown are among the greatest jazz LP covers ever.

[Rooster_Ties]

This one even has it in the title:

Was this cover for "City of Glass" ever issued on LP? - i.e. a 12-inch release? Given that both 'city' and 'glass' are mentioned in the title, this could be a contender.

(Have always loved this cover, though I only have it on CD.)

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[duaneiac]

[xybert]

Ellery Eskelin's Trio New York covers fit the bill i believe (could only find a picture that wasn't huge of the second album).

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[soulpope]

[Rooster_Ties]

This one even has it in the title:

Was this cover for "City of Glass" ever issued on LP? - i.e. a 12-inch release? Given that both 'city' and 'glass' are mentioned in the title, this could be a contender.

(Have always loved this cover, though I only have it on CD.)

So, in all my poking around on-line, this cover does NOT appear to have ever been released specifically on LP (12") -- and was/is CD only.

Shame, it's a great cover. Can't imagine there were any 12"x12" promo cardboard 'flats' of it produced, were there? I know, a needle in a haystack, if ever there was one (at best). A guy can hope, can't he?

[Hardbopjazz]

The CD of a recording I did several years back has architecture on the CD, but not the cover.