The re-issue of Kenny Burrell’s Blue Note 1543 album in the audiophile series Tone Poet finally got its release. At first it was planned for June, but boy, it was worth the wait. What a brilliant release this is, both in regards of music production […]
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Reid Miles & Andy Warhol: Kenny Burrell, Blue Lights, Blue Note 1596 & 1597, Volume 1 (1958) and 2 (1961)
The third and last Miles-Warhol project for Blue Note Records is my favorite: Blue Lights, again by Kenny Burrell, and released in two separate volumes with a different color background. In the Fifties, records with a what now is familiarily called “cheese cake” photo on […]
Reid Miles & Andy Warhol: Johnny Griffin, The Congregation, Blue Note 1580 (1958)
The next Warhol-Miles cooperation for Blue Note records follows the same path as the Kenny Burrell album: in 1956 there was an album called Introducing Johnny Griffin, with a cover designed by Reid Miles and a photo of Griffin by Francis Wolff. So for the […]
Reid Miles and Warhol: the shoe, the nudes, the letterhead
“For me work is an upper, a great high. I have no personal life. I don’t want it.” Those could have easily been Andy Warhol’s words, but they were not. Its’ a quote from an interview with art director Reid Miles in People Magazine, in […]
Johnny Griffin – The Congregation – Blue Note 1580
Let’s complete the Blue Note trio, with Johnny Griffin’s The Congregation. I was lucky enough to buy an original copy with the 47W63Str address, for a reasonable price. Only reason that was possible: the record itself is in pretty bad shape, graded G+ only. If […]
Kenny Burrell – Blue Note 1543
The first Andy Warhol-Reid Miles collaboration on Blue Note was for the album Kenny Burrell, no title, Blue Note 1543. The album was released in 1957. The cover has a great drawing of Burrell playing the guitar. The original drawing can be seen in the […]
Kenny Burrell – Blue Lights – Blue Note 1597
I don’t really have one favourite Warhol cover, depends on my mood. There are several I like ‘the most’. The glorious blotted line drawing for Kenny Burrell’s Blue Lights, on Blue Note records, is a serious contender anyway. I was surprised when I saw what is […]
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