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
Miles Davis
09.04.2008
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I feel like I am looking at local artwork being sold by artists at the beach (slight exaggeration). I live in South Africa 😉
“Bitches Brew?,” Snoop Dog might rather give it the modern title of… “Bring me my 40oz, biatch!”
These 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.
iIve 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. 🙂
All I gotta say is… Billy Cobbham.
Kills it on this record. One of my favorite jazz/fusion drummers ever.
I 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.
What do you think the Bitches Brew font is? i love the water on that cover
I 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
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ab/BitchesBrewGatefold.jpg
“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.