Ornette Coleman Double Quartet – Free Jazz album art
Contributed by Rob Hudson on Jun 12th, 2015. Artwork published in
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5 Comments on “Ornette Coleman Double Quartet – Free Jazz album art”
Thanks, Chris!
I always thought that this album design has been so clearly hommaged by Pharoah Sanders’ final release, the stunning collaboration with Floating Points, Promises. Not only is the general typographic, color and visual design a nod to this legendary album, it’s also a cut out cover that gives view to a work of modern art. And it makes sense, it being the last album of one of the (at the time of the release) last living Free Jazz legends.
Yes, that’s striking. Thanks for the pointer, Miro. The design for Promises is by Paul Diddy (with cover art by Julie Mehretu). He worked with Helvetica instead of Akzidenz-Grotesk.
By the way, I spotted your Saint Omer poster in the Big Screen exhibition recently – congrats!
Oh yes, I meant to mention the type choice, but I had already pressed “submit comment” at the moment I realized that haha.
And thank you for the kind words :) I did actually have another bigger scale poster there too, “One of These Days” in the festival section of the exhibition. I feel very grateful for having been part of this, I felt out of place among so many legends.