Mongo Santamaria – Mongo’s Way album art
From Wikipedia:
Ramón “Mongo” Santamaría Rodríguez (April 7, 1917 – February 1, 2003) was a Cuban percussionist and bandleader who spent most of his career in the United States. Primarily a conga drummer, Santamaría was a leading figure in the pachanga and boogaloo dance crazes of the 1960s. His biggest hit was his rendition of Herbie Hancock’s “Watermelon Man”, which was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998. From the 1970s, he recorded mainly salsa and Latin jazz, before retiring in the late 1990s.
For this 1971 album on Atlantic Records, designer Stanisław Zagórski used a title typeface that was added to Photo-Lettering’s library just a year earlier: it’s Norman Green’s Buzzard. Zagórski specified the (relatively) simplified A style. Its letterforms are shown in reverse, with white parts printed in black, and black parts colored in yellow, orange, and pink.
Photography by Jim Cummins.
