David Stone Martin: A Tribute

[Brad]

Here’s a tribute to the great designer of so many wonderful albums, by The Clark Tracey Quintet, courtesy of Jazz Profiles. 

 

[jazzcorner]

On 13.7.2018 at 1:24 PM, Brad said:

Here’s a tribute to the great designer of so many wonderful albums, by The Clark Tracey Quintet, courtesy of Jazz Profiles. 

The video is not available.

Will start here with a series of DSM cover art from my own  LP collection

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[Brad]

1 hour ago, jazzcorner said:

The video is not available.

Well, that was posted two years ago

[Peter Friedman]

These are David Stone Martin covers on my Progressive label CDs.

[jazzcorner]

1 hour ago, Peter Friedman said:

These are David Stone Martin covers on my Progressive label CDs.

Some more on my Progressive LP's

 

 

Some on Verve LP's  (appeare all also in a CD box of NG Jam Sessions)

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[BillF]

[Peter Friedman]

One more on Progressive, followed by CD covers on Verve. 

[Peter Friedman]

More Verve CD covers off my shelf.

[sidewinder]

Not forgetting..

[BillF]

43 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

Not forgetting..

She looks like she's escaped from the Morton book!

[jazzcorner]

4 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

One more on Progressive, followed by CD covers on Verve. 

Yes have  all the Tal Farlow  + other  Clefs, Norgrans, Verves vinyls posted allready on Steve Hoffrmans Forums

Can copy them and post them  here too.

BTW on "Pinterest" the DSM covers are collected too.

Pinterest <recommendations@explore.pinterest.com>

https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/david-stone-martin-cover-design.823384/

 

 

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[Peter Friedman]

Keep finding more on my shelves.

[jazzcorner]

3 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Keep finding more on my shelves.

Me too!

 

 

 

 

 

[kh1958]

Link to New York Times obituary:

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/08/nyregion/david-stone-martin-78-illustrator-of-jazz-albums.html 

[jazzcorner]

19 hours ago, kh1958 said:

 link to New York Times obituary:

Thanks for that link.

Here are a few more of his album covers:

 

Edited February 4, 2020 by jazzcorner
typo

[Shrdlu]

On the back of some of those albums, Norman Granz said that they were "in genuine Munster Dummel High Fidelity". The recent Japanese "SHM" CD hoax is reminiscent of that.

Edited February 4, 2020 by Shrdlu

[jazzcorner]

2 hours ago, Shrdlu said:

On the back of some of those albums, Norman Granz said that they were "in genuine Munster Dummel High Fidelity".

You can read it also on the front cover ---> see the Count Basie "Dance Session" above

 

[Shrdlu]

Ah, so it's actually Münster. I had forgotten that.

In later years, Norman admitted that it was a joke.