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 […]
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Reid Miles & Andy Warhol: Kenny Burrell – Blue Note 1543 (1957)
This is the first of six short posts I will write about the great album covers that art director Reid Miles and Andy Warhol created together in 1957 and 1958: three covers for Blue Note Records and three for Prestige Records. The first one for […]
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 1956. 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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