Jimmy McGriff – The Mean Machine album art
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
on Apr 5th, 2026. Artwork published in
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A fine Use of all-caps West Nouveau Didot for the cover of The Mean Machine, an album by jazz organist Jimmy McGriff (1936–2008) released on Groove Merchant in 1976. Printed in pale violet and yellow, the curly letters nicely echo the ornamentation on the musician’s garment.
