Coast To Coast Album Covers: Classic Record Art From New York To LA
by Graham Marsh and Glyn Callignham
Jazz is forever associated with labels like Blue Note, Prestige, Atlantic, Contemporary, Pacific, and Riverside. Each of these companies strove to communicate the essence of its sound through album covers. Now, this captivating anthology of 400 covers brings [...]

Gilles Peterson, Stuart Baker and Soul Jazz Books have put out some great books the past couple years.
In 2009 they released the great Freedom, Rhythm & Sound, which is around 200 pages of rare, private press and obscure Free Jazz album covers. The years span 1965-‘83, through the Civil Rights movement, much of the music [...]

Burt Goldblatt – Album Covers and Photography

I'm a huge fan of not only the music of yesterday, but the photography that documents the players of the era, along with the artwork contained on the albums of the time. In the 1950's, the "Mood Music", or Les Baxter-style Hollywood psuedo-exotica music, had cover artwork that was [...]

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Freedom, Rhythm and Sound By Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker
This is an amazing book that just arrived in the mail today, a full day after the 2nd Anniversary of the Beat Swap Meet, while I have plenty of new joints to listen. This book is a collection of rare, small-press-DIY album covers by 60's [...]

Legendary NYC Photographer Ernie Paniccioli
I would call Ernie Paniccioli a "Legendary Hip-Hop" photographer, just off the strength of his book Who Shot Ya and his years at Word Up magazine, but he's so much more than that, a photographer, philosopher, writer, documentor, speaker and whatever else.  He started out taking flicks of the early aerosol [...]