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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers / The Elmo Hope Quintet feat. Harold Land ‎album art

Contributed by Florian Hardwig on Mar 4th, 2023. Artwork published in .
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers / The Elmo Hope Quintet feat. Harold Land  ‎album art 1
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Designer Woody Woodward was into type-only album covers. We previously featured one such designs of his, made in 1963 for The De-Fenders, with Inserat-Grotesk.

The cover shown here is from the year before, for an album by Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers originally released in 1957. It’s combined with a session recorded by the Elmo Hope Quintet featuring saxophonist Harold Land in October 1957. Woodward used Grotesque No. 9 Italic and repeated the title five times, building a mesmerizing wall of type. You can listen to the music on the Internet Archive.

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The track list on the back is set in  Bold, with  Bold for the headings. The roman used for John William Hardy’s liner notes is a bit too small to identify.
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The track list on the back is set in News Gothic Bold, with Kaufmann Bold for the headings. The roman used for John William Hardy’s liner notes is a bit too small to identify.

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  • Grotesque No. 9
  • Kaufmann
  • News Gothic

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