Album cover for The Flowering by the Charles Lloyd Quartet, released in 1971 on Atlantic Records. Designed by prolific album designer Haig Adishian using Davison Fandango Ornamental and a painting by Jacques Richez.

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Album cover for the debut album by free jazz violinist Michael White, designed by frequent Impulse! records designer Philip Melnick using the regular and shadow styles of Fat Albert.

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Artwork for Catch-Wave, an album of solo improvisations for violin, electronics, and voice by Fluxus artist Takehisa Kosugi. The cover features a vibrating op art treatment of a photo by Tamotsu Fujii designed by Aritsune Terada & Shizuo Ishizuka. Released on CBS/Sony Records in 1975.

The title is set in caps from the left-leaning Alfereta. The artist’s name uses Futura Bold.

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“Sounds speeding on lights” appears to be Trade Gothic. The other fonts on the back cover including the Japanese ones are unidentified.

Album cover for Pharoah Sanders’ 1971 spiritual free jazz album Thembi, with photography and design by Philip Melnick, released on Impulse! Records.

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Artwork for a record that accompanies Crime and Society: The Challenge We Face, an educational filmstrip and apparently also a book published in Scholastic’s Contact series in 1975.

The uncredited cover design plays on Juke-Box’s blocky nature and repeats the title four times, rotated and arranged around a square. The smaller text is set in two weights from Glaser Stencil.

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Album cover for Dawn by Don Robertson, an album of improvised proto-new age music released on Mercury’s Limelight label in 1969.

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Artwork for an album of abstract and sometimes Eastern-inspired electronic music by William Hoskins, released on the Spectrum label in 1979. Hoskins was Director of Electronic Music and Composer-in-Residence at Jacksonville University in Florida.

The album title brings together ITC Pioneer (without visible shadow on the front cover) and all-caps Artistik. A revival of the latter was issued by Letraset just in 1978. The artist’s name is in Helvetica, just like the text on the back cover. “Spectrum” uses Optima.

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Album artwork for saxophonist Frank Lowe’s album Doctor Too-Much. Featuring a vibrant design by Norman G. Goben, Jr. framing a photograph of Lowe by William Ellenberg. Released on the Kharma label in 1977.

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This photo suggests a more magenta-like tone for the inner frame.

Artwork for the 1973 album Black Beings by saxophonist Frank Lowe, released on the ESP Disk label. The type seems to be a hand cut collage interpretation of Bobo Bold, designed by Carmen Lowe.

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Artwork for an album of a live recording of a 1973 concert by the Cecil Taylor Unit, recorded at Town Hall in New York City and released as Spring of Two Blue-J’s on Taylor’s own Unit Core label in 1974. The design is credited to Don Mathe and Li Baily with a photograph by jazz photographer Katsuji Abe and Davison Epanoul with biform glyphs and the sharp alternates for c and e.

An unedited recording of the entire concert was released digitally by Oblivion Records in February of 2022.

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Artwork for the album Cecil Taylor Unit by free jazz pianist Cecil Taylor, released in 1978 on New World Records. The cover features a painting by David X. Young (1930–2001) and design by New World Records designer Elaine Sherer Cox. The cover uses Blippo and its alternate A in the form of an enlarged two-story lowercase letter.

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Artwork for a recording of a 1971 solo performance in Paris by saxophonist and composer Anthony Braxton, released by the French label Futura Records around 1975. With photography and design by Jean-Marc Decker, featuring Tape Don (Mecanorma, 1975) by Sylvia Trenker and Hans Donner.

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The credits on the back cover are set in Baskerville Old Face or similar.

Album cover for the 1976 album Mariamar from saxophonist Archie Shepp, released on the Italian label Horo Records. The cover is designed by Mirella Buscarino who designed several covers for Horo.

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Album cover for the 1970 album Pitchin Can from saxophonist Archie Shepp, released on the French label America Records. Poster was added to Mecanorma’s catalog of rubdown type shortly before, in 1969.

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Cover design for the 1968 edition of René Daumal’s surreal allegorical novel Mount Analogue published by City Lights Books and featuring a photograph by Casey Sonnabend & Michael Bowen.

Psychedelic watercolor and collage cover for a collection of science fiction stories edited by Sam Moskowitz and published by Pyramid Books. Artwork by Gail Burwen, who was later the art director for National Lampoon magazine.

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Album cover for Ballads of Love (きよ子と愛とメルヘンと) by Japanese psychedelic folk singer Kiyoko Itoh (伊東きよ子), released in 1969 on CBS/Sony Records. The English text uses Pekin in all caps. The Japanese typefaces are unidentified.

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Back cover.

Interior of gatefold.

Interior of gatefold.

Cover for a compilation of music by British mystical blues rock musician Graham Bond released in 1972.

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Space Jazz is an album of music composed by Scientology leader L. Ron Hubbard as a soundtrack to his science fiction novel Battlefield Earth. Performed by a band featuring prominent Scientologist and jazz fusion pioneer Chick Corea on several tracks.
This cover features a design template similar to the 1982 edition of the book (featured on the cover) which has a cover illustration by Paul Stinson.

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In 1984, the album was re-issued as Battlefield Earth, now directly referencing the book’s title. Cover art by Gerry Grace.

Chapbook of poetry by Black poet Dudley Randall (1914–2000), published by Third Word Press, Chicago, 1973. The shaken-up characters are from Précis (VGC, 1972).