Jimmy McGriff Organ and Blues Band – Step 1 album art
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.
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 Optima.
2 Comments on “Jimmy McGriff Organ and Blues Band – Step 1 album art”
Jeff Levine has a digital version of this as Folk Band JNL.
Nice! I had missed this one when it came out in November 2025.