Jazz Album covers
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Ha! I typed the wrong label. Venus! Not Verve.
Check ✔ out the Venus SACD by Eddie Harris. 
Sorry, I just don't see anything that sticks out?Check ✔ out the Venus SACD by Eddie Harris.
That's what SHE said.
Maybe it's just that particular label. haha.
"An independent jazz label Venus Records was established by Tetsuo Hara in 1992.
Having worked as a record producer for RCA and Alfa Jazz, Mr. Hara fulfilled his long-time dream of establishing his own label by releasing a new recording of Pharoah Sanders, one of the musicians he respects most."
Sorry, not to sound snooty but would anyone be talking about this stuff if it was just plain old CD releases? To me the lack of creativity in these kind of album covers smacks of the kind of dive bars and "gentlemans clubs" you'd find in London's Soho district that had a pretty woman out front trying to get hapless men inside, only to discover what was inside was nothing more than a glorified dive bar.
Having worked as a record producer for RCA and Alfa Jazz, Mr. Hara fulfilled his long-time dream of establishing his own label by releasing a new recording of Pharoah Sanders, one of the musicians he respects most."
Sorry, not to sound snooty but would anyone be talking about this stuff if it was just plain old CD releases? To me the lack of creativity in these kind of album covers smacks of the kind of dive bars and "gentlemans clubs" you'd find in London's Soho district that had a pretty woman out front trying to get hapless men inside, only to discover what was inside was nothing more than a glorified dive bar.
I have lost count of the albums from artists I don't know that I have purchased based solely on the album cover.
In fairness to your point, nudity to me does not make a positive impact on my purchases.
In fairness to your point, nudity to me does not make a positive impact on my purchases.
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"An independent jazz label Venus Records was established by Tetsuo Hara in 1992.
Having worked as a record producer for RCA and Alfa Jazz, Mr. Hara fulfilled his long-time dream of establishing his own label by releasing a new recording of Pharoah Sanders, one of the musicians he respects most."
Sorry, not to sound snooty but would anyone be talking about this stuff if it was just plain old CD releases? To me the lack of creativity in these kind of album covers smacks of the kind of dive bars and "gentlemans clubs" you'd find in London's Soho district that had a pretty woman out front trying to get hapless men inside, only to discover what was inside was nothing more than a glorified dive bar.
For me, Venus is the exception that proves the rule. I agree: Tetsuo Hara had a strange notion of what constitutes a "classy" album cover. But unlike those cheesy lounge-act records, his label actually features some serious jazz cats: not just Sanders, but Archie Shepp, Eddie Higgins, Bill Charlap, Kenny Werner, Steve Kuhn...the list goes on and on. (I don't have any of them, but the Hoffman crowd complains that the SACDs are beautifully recorded, but mastered loud.) I wouldn't call these in any way representative of "Jazz Album Covers" as a whole, though...
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