Sunday 6 January 2013

David Stone Martin part 4

In the world of jazz there is one artist collected the world over who has never played an instrument not even a note of music but has left his mark on the jazz culture. Illustrator David Stone Martin (1913 – 1992) was one of the most prolific and influential graphic designers of the postwar era, with his signature hand-sketched graphics with two or three primary colours, perfectly capturing the energy and spontaneity of the jazz idiom.

For biographical notes on Martin see part 1. For earlier works see parts 1-3 also.

This is part 3 of a 4-part post on the works of David Stone Martin: 

(I'm afraid I do not have dates for a number of the album covers in this particular post)


1961 ( March 30 ) Down Beat magazine cover

1961 ( August 3 ) Down Beat magazine cover

1961 ( August 31 ) Down Beat magazine cover

1961 ( September 14 ) Down Beat magazine cover

1961 ( October 26 ) Down Beat magazine cover

1963 Reader's Digest Condensed Books

1976 Al Haig "Piano Time"

1979 Sam Jones 12 Piece Band "Something New" 
Interplay Records 12" LP

1984 Charlie Parker Vol. 8 
Verve Records

1990 ( recorded 1978 ) Don Friedman "Hot Knepper And Pepper" 
Progressive Records

Another Evening with Charlie Ventura and Mary Ann McCall 
Norgran Records catalogue no. EP N-78

Portrait of Ed Morrow, CBS

Art Tatum 
Asch Records

Grand Award Dixieland Jazz "Jass Band" 
Spartan Records LP

Grand Award Porgy and Bess

Gösta Nyström - Sinfonia Del Mare 
Swedish

Hank Jones' Be-Bop Piano

Illustration

Illustration

Illustration

Illustration

Illustration

Illustration

Jass Band

Lester Young Collates 
Mercury Records catalogue no. MGC108 10" LP

Norman Granz' Jazz Concert Vol. 1 
Norgran Records

Norman Granz' Jazz at the Philharmonic Vol. 10 
Mercury Records

Mr. Piano Man  the Music of Joe Sullivan 
Down Home Records catalogue no. MG D-2

Norman Granz' Jazz at the Philharmonic No. 11 
Clef Records

Norman Granz' Jazz at the Philharmonic Vol. 3 
Verve Records

Norman Granz' Jazz at the Philharmonic Vol. 6 
Clef Records 10" LP

Norman Granz' Jazz at the Philharmonic Vol. 4 
Mercury Records 10" LP

Norman Granz' Jazz at the Philharmonic Vol. 9 
Mercury Records 10" LP

Norman Granz' Jazz at the Philharmonic Vol. 9 
Verve Records

Norman Granz' Jazz at the Philharmonic 
Stinson Records

Oscar Peterson 
Mercury Records

Tenor Saxes 
Norgran Records catalogue no. MG N-1034

Friday 4 January 2013

David Stone Martin part 3

In the world of jazz there is one artist collected the world over who has never played an instrument not even a note of music but has left his mark on the jazz culture. Illustrator David Stone Martin (1913 – 1992) was one of the most prolific and influential graphic designers of the postwar era, with his signature hand-sketched graphics with two or three primary colours, perfectly capturing the energy and spontaneity of the jazz idiom.

For biographical notes on Martin see part 1. For earlier works see parts 1-2 also.

This is part 3 of a 4-part post on the works of David Stone Martin:


1955 Piano Interpretations by Bud Powell 
Verve Records

1956 Piano Interpretations by Bud Powell 
Norgran Records catalogue no. MG N-1077 12" LP

1955 Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie "Roy and Diz No. 2" 
Clef Records catalogue no. MG G-671 12" LP

1955 Stan Getz "West Coast Jazz" 
Verve Records

1955 Swing Guitars - Oscar Moore, Barney Kessel, Tal Farlow 
Norgran Records catalogue no. MG N-1033 12" LP

1955 Teddy Wilson 
Norgran Records EP

1955 The Gene Krupa Trio Collates 
Mercury Records EP

1955 The Ideation of Kenny Drew 
Norgran Records

1955 The Lionel Hampton Quartet 
Clef Records

1956 Anita O'Day Sings Jazz 
Norgran Records catalogue no. MG N-1049 12" LP

1956 Count Basie "Basie" Clef Records catalogue no. MG G-E65

1956 Count Basie Swings - Joe Williams Sings 
Columbia Records Clef Series 12" LP

1956 Hank Jones Piano "Urbanity" 
Clef Records catalogue no. MG C-707

1956 Illinois Jacquet Collates 
Mercury Records catalogue no. MGC-112 10" LP

1956 Johhny Hodges "Creamy" 
Verve Records catalogue no. 70-5706 12" LP

1956 Lester Young and Harry Edison "Pres and Sweets" 
Norgran Records catalogue no. MGN-1043 12" LP

1956 Lionel Hampton and Stan Getz "Hamp and Getz" 
Verve Records 12" LP

1956 Norman Granz' Jam Session No. 8 
Clef Records catalogue no. MG C-711 12" LP

1956 Roy Eldridge and his Central Plaza Dixielanders "Swing Goes Dixie" 
Verve Records 12" LP

1956 Roy Eldridge, Art Tatum, Alvin Stoller, John Simmons 
Clef Records 12" LP

1956 The Genius of Art Tatum No. 8 
Clef Records

1956 The Modern Jazz Sextet 
Norgran Records catalogue no. MG N-1076 12" LP

1957  Don Byas "Jazz at Saint-Germain Des Pres" 
Verve Records catalogue no. MGV-8119 12" LP

1957 Al Hirt's Band 
Verve Records

1957 Billie Holiday "All or Nothing at All" 
Verve Records catalogue no. MV 2599 12" Mono LP

1957 Lionel Hampton and His All-Stars 12" 
Columbia Records Clef Series mono LP

1957 Swinging with Flip - Flip Phillips and his Orchestra

1959 Harry Belafonte "Love is a Gentle Thing" 
RCA Victor Records catalogue no. LPM-1927

1959 Harry Edison "Mr. Swing" 
Verve Records 12" Stereo LP

1959 Mort Sahl "A Way of Life" 
Verve Records catalogue no. MG V-15006

1959 Oscar Peterson Plays Porgy and Bess studio album 
Verve Records

1960 Reader's Digest Condensed Books

1960s Reader's Digest Condensed Books

1960s Reader's Digest Condensed Books

1960s Reader's Digest Condensed Books

1960s Reader's Digest Condensed Books

1960s Reader's Digest Condensed Books

1961 ( January 5 ) Down Beat magazine cover