Tag Archives: Miles Davis

many rivers to cross

Brilliant. But relegated to the scrapheap. A dust bin discard. Just another tormented, energetic man who became an old wild man. Part of a weird process that maybe invented pop art. Maybe. You know the type. Caught between a passion … Continue reading

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a love supreme

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane’s Signature Album Penguin Books, 2002 Photograph: Bob Thiele (courtesy the Coltrane Family and the Verve Music Group) Design: Jesse Marinoff Reyes … Continue reading

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when we were fab: takin’ the a train

Don Hunstein was the staff photographer for Columbia in the early to mid 1960’s and worked with well known art directors at the label like John Berg and Bob Cato. In the LP era the album cover was a complementary … Continue reading

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HENRI SCISSORHANDS

It was the final flowering of Henri Matisse. He was ever simplifying, ever synthesizing, acting younger at eighty than he was at thirty. He sat in his wheel chair and put aside paintbrush for scissors, filling his sunset years with … Continue reading

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A COUPLE COOL CATS & HOT RATS

”Introduced to-day to the man who beyond all doubt is the greatest of the age; greatest in every faculty of the imagination, in every branch of scenic knowledge; at once the painter and poet of the day… I found in him … Continue reading

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