Covers photographed in front of Rudy Van Gelder's venetian blinds

[mjzee]

[Ted O'Reilly]

Was this on a cover?  Certainly taken there...  I mostly recall the image itself, not whether it was on an album, or whether it was the original or re-issue....  Same blinds, lamp, piano...some different microphones.

 

 

 

 

 

Does a CD tray count?  Gotta be the same session as the first pic...

 

 

Just ran across this one, which I've never seen before...  Monk and Silver!

[mjzee]

[mjzee]

[JohnS]

How about curtains.

Edited August 31, 2018 by JohnS

[mikeweil]

This one, perhaps?

[jazzbo]

[mjzee]

I realize now that this task is harder than I thought, because Francis Wolff used lenses and lighting to create black backgrounds; in other words, the venetian blinds may very well have been in the background of some covers, but cannot be seen.  For example: 

But inside the booklet:

Actually, the blinds can be seen behind Jenkins:

Curtains (aka drapes):

Venetian blinds:

Drapes:

Drapes (hard to see, but behind the ensemble shot):

Drapes (originally on Savoy; the Kodak Brownie quality gives it away):