Albums from the 60's - Jazz and Blues

Album Art 60's Blues & Jazz

To bring my research home and steer it into a more applicable direction for my brief, Im starting to look at blues and jazz album artwork from the 60's.

The reason I am specifically looking at the 60's pieces for now is because I want to give my own piece a very vintage style and 60's based heritage, although I will try to blend it with a modern and contemporary theme. 

Here are a few classics I've picked out from the 1960's.

Love the font on this one!

Excellent composition, more my style, although seems to have drifted from the standard blues cover art.. more contemporary. 

Really nice font, very 60's, contrasting with a very old style photo of Muddy, Bo and Howlin'.

I like the sense of age the black and white (sepia) style photo has, maybe representing the earlier days the musicians became established in...

Very basic but also self explanatory. I think the font is beautiful,  it stands out like a sore thumb in a yellowy okre and blood orange stating the album name quite proudly.. yet humbly. 

Love it, although I probably won't take much from this piece as it is a very basic photograph and I want my piece to have a fair bit more going on to communicate my concept.

All of these covers, barring 'American Folk Blues Festival' , depict the artist/musicians. 

All have a very plane washy backdrop of pale colour, with a loud standout text that sharply expresses what the album is. Also, I've noticed, other rock albums etc of the same era, like to express a lot in there cover artworks.. sometimes a strong sense of personality.. wealth.. status etc.

Whereas blues albums seem to stay humble, nothing to prove.. blues music is not about fame, popularity or success, it is the music for the thinking mind, the awkward ponderer, the lonely romantic and the heartbroken.. it remains patiently calm, and wishes to state nothing about itself other than what it is...

The blues. 

The main points I have taken from looking at 60's blues album art is thus:

*Pale washy background

*Strong stand out text

*Depiction of the musician

*Dont show off, stay humble, be respectful of the genre and do it quiet justice.