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Jimmy McGriff Organ and Blues BandStep 1 album art

Contributed by Florian Hardwig on Aug 30th, 2023. Artwork published in .
Jimmy McGriff Organ and Blues Band – Step 1 album art 1
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1969 release by jazz organist Jimmy McGriff (1936–2008) and his band on Solid State, a subsidiary of United Artists Records

The display typeface with the unusual contrast – sometimes horizontal, sometimes vertical, but always high – is Oring Title. To quote from a previous post:

This phototypeface is an adaptation of an unnamed alphabet (caps plus numerals) shown by Paul Carlyle and Guy Oring in their Letters and Lettering from 1938. I don’t know who turned the piece of lettering into a typeface, and how it was originally named. It was used already in 1969. In 1999, Dan X. Solo showed it in his book Moderne Alphabets under the name Oring Title.

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Jimmy McGriff Organ and Blues Band – Step 1 album art 2
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Liner notes on the gatefold are set in what looks like , wrapped around a repeating halftone portrait.
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Liner notes on the gatefold are set in what looks like Memphis, wrapped around a repeating halftone portrait.

Track names on the back ar ein .
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Track names on the back ar ein Optima.

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  • Memphis
  • Optima

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