Miles Davis
Posted by Scott
Beautiful images and beautiful music, they don’t make either like this anymore. Bitches Brew ranks up there as one of my all time favorite album covers.
Some images via Sleevery
Beautiful images and beautiful music, they don’t make either like this anymore. Bitches Brew ranks up there as one of my all time favorite album covers.
Some images via Sleevery
10 Comments Leave A Comment
Daniel Carvalho says:
September 4, 2008 at 5:40 amI feel like I am looking at local artwork being sold by artists at the beach (slight exaggeration). I live in South Africa ;)
Justin S. Meyers says:
September 4, 2008 at 5:58 am“Bitches Brew?,” Snoop Dog might rather give it the modern title of… “Bring me my 40oz, biatch!”
Colin at Hard Format says:
September 4, 2008 at 6:07 amThese are wonderful, Mati Klarwein the painter of the latter two definitely deserves a mention. Though I love these covers, I’d also recommend the Japanese designed covers for Agharta, Pangaea and Dark Magus.
Rae Davis says:
September 4, 2008 at 9:18 amiIve always enjoyed In A Silent Way, the cover was so intense yet very simple. Around The Corner is a good cover too, it has this Saturday morning cartoon vibe too it. Both very influential records, to me at least. :)
Anthony | Effixx says:
September 4, 2008 at 9:31 amAll I gotta say is… Billy Cobbham.
Kills it on this record. One of my favorite jazz/fusion drummers ever.
Alex / HeadUp says:
September 4, 2008 at 10:26 amI was always partial to Miles’ early work, Plays for Lovers remains my favorite collection of tunes, but later and more well-known work like Bitches Brew is an undeniable cornerstone of jazz.
That Miles in the Sky cover is excellent, I love the use of so many colors and abstract shapes– leaves a lot up to interpretation. I see his face in an almost Rorschach formation.
Jakub says:
September 4, 2008 at 10:40 amWhat do you think the Bitches Brew font is? i love the water on that cover
Scott says:
September 4, 2008 at 3:16 pmI think it’s Mostra but with a different “S”:
http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/singles/mark_simonson/mostra_two_heavy/&sample_text=MILES%20DAVIS%20BITCHES&sample_size=36
more info here:
http://www.typophile.com/node/33072
jozv says:
September 12, 2008 at 8:36 amhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ab/BitchesBrewGatefold.jpg
joe says:
February 12, 2009 at 11:24 pm“Stuff” from Miles In The Sky has got to be one of my most favorite jams ever. Such a simple song, yet so completely bad ass. I think it was one of the first times, if not THE first time, Ron Carter played electric bass. Thanks for the covers…gotta go get my iPod.