Music Monday - Jazz at the Philharmonic - Norman Granz

One of my favorites Maria Muldaur was born today in 1942 but I couldn’t find any birthdays or events this week to associate with David Stone Martin’s art work. So today we have a various artist album cover by DSM.

This is from a 78 rpm set of one of the many, many incarnations of Jazz At The Philharmonic from Norman Granz, jazz music impresario and producer.

The figure here, with trumpet, became the overall logo (or icon) for Granz and his record labels, primarily Verve and Clef. There is a list of Granz promoted recordings HERE.

Music Monday - Jazz at the Philharmonic 1956

For those of you who are unmoved by this illustrated program magazine cover, you have my deepest sympathies. You should get out more. For those of you who recognize this as the program cover of the Jazz at the Philharmonic tour of 1956, you have my admiration. You are indeed a fan. It is now fifty-three (53) years old. For those of you who recognize that the cover illustration is by the fine artist David Stone Martin, I congratulate you. You are an aficionado. For a fine retrospective of his artwork and a studied review of his life look at this Flickr set. For those of you who don’t appreciate what a flea market find this was, take a look at THIS COPY which includes autographs. Of course this copy is without autographs but still holds well in the $75 range. The same artwork was used in the "World" tour of 1958. No, you don't have one of these.

The Profile (more than you really wanted to know) is here.