Garrick Sextet – Promises
Promises is the debut album of the Garrick Sextet led by British jazz pianist, band leader and composer Michael Garrick (1933–2011). The record was released in 1965 by Argo Records, a label absorbed by Decca Records in 1957.
The unknown designer of the front cover combined a powerful red/black color combination with five irregular shapes showing the six band members in black-and-white photographs. The top left shape is simultaneously a picture frame and the capital P – the initial capital of the album title. It is set on an angle, using Typefoundry Amsterdam’s Flambard, with the last two letters reversed out of a photograph showing Michael Garrick, and ending in an EndcaP. The band name is somewhat inconspicuously tucked away between the bottom two pictures. The gap between the top two images offers ample room for typography, though. Perhaps the band name was positioned right there in an earlier version of the design?
The back cover is set in three weights of Univers.
