Gene Ammons – Late Hour Special album art
Contributed by Bryson Stohr on Oct 7th, 2023. Artwork published in
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Gene Ammons’ jazz album Late Hour Special was originally released by Prestige Records in 1964. Shown above is a 1990s CD rerelease by the same company for their Original Jazz Classics series, which essentially uses the same artwork for the front cover.
The name of the musician is the normal style of Benguiat Interlock, shown here with half a billion eccentric, interlocking ligatures. The fonts used for “Late Hour Special” and the track listing are more constrained, though; the former uses Franklin Gothic Wide, and the latter uses News Gothic Bold. Both faces were relatively recent (i.e. 1953 and 1958, respectively) additions to Morris Benton’s decades-old families by John L. Renshaw.
The original vinyl release from 1964
