{"id":27037,"date":"2025-03-11T17:42:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T17:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27037"},"modified":"2025-03-11T19:22:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T19:22:59","slug":"art-design-music-jazzical-moods-artwork-of-excellent-jazz-labels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27037","title":{"rendered":"ART &amp; DESiGN\/MUSiC: Jazzical Moods, Artwork of Excellent Jazz Labels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1004\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5272-1-1004x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27034\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5272-1-1004x1024.jpg 1004w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5272-1-294x300.jpg 294w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5272-1-768x783.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5272-1-1506x1536.jpg 1506w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5272-1.jpg 1569w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"396\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5273-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27035\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5273-1.jpg 396w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5273-1-297x300.jpg 297w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5273-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"155\" height=\"30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/stars_10_five-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27036\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/stars_10_five-1-2.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/stars_10_five-1-2-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With more than 600 full colour, and over 50 monochrome illustrations, there\u2019s masses here to enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cover &#8211; both back and front are made to look like a groovy LP sleeve &#8211; was designed by no less a luminary of jazz photography and design than the one and only Bill Claxton!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First published in Japan, in 1993, I\u2019ve had my bi-lingual copy (Japanese\/English) for many, many years, now. Poss as far back as \u201893? I bought it for the images. And until today I\u2019d not read much if any of the text!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, today I\u2019m starting to read some of it. Immediately, the foreward type bit, on the inside flap of the \u2018dust jacket\u2019, strikes a chord. Noaki Mukoda, a photographer who has compiled all the covers here, was enchanted by the J<em>azz On A Summer\u2019s Day <\/em>movie, as a student (as was I!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But he also fed his love of jazz albums in those most Japanese of places, the Kissa. We didn\u2019t have such places here. Only bookshops and record stores. Some dedicated, in whole or in part, to jazz. For more about Kissa, go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=9837\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With more than 600 full colour, and over 50 monochrome illustrations, there\u2019s masses here to enjoy. The cover &#8211; both back and front are made to look like a groovy LP sleeve &#8211; was designed by no less a luminary of jazz photography and design than the one and only Bill Claxton! First published in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27037\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ART &amp; DESiGN\/MUSiC: Jazzical Moods, Artwork of Excellent Jazz Labels&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-725","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27037"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27048,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27037\/revisions\/27048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}