Site for OOP Prestige Album Covers?

[Soul Stream]

I've been loading up my ipod and putting downloading the old covers from various places.

However, a lot of these CDs came out with Legends of Acid jazz CD Covers, ect and I'm trying to find the original artwork somewhere.

Anybody have any sites or ideas?

[Jim R]

I've seen some good Japanese and Korean sites in the past, but a lot of them seem to disappear pretty quickly. Aside from the obvious places to start (Google, ebay), you can try these:

http://gokudo.co.jp (great for Blue Note, but they have quite a few Prestige and other labels)

http://www.ne.jp/asahi/shimada/yukiteru/

http://sekihei.hp.infoseek.co.jp/ (try the links too, like the one that says "backnumber")

Also, it might be worth trying http://www.musicstack.com/.

Oh, and also illustrated artist discographies (kind of hit and miss, but there are some great ones)

Edited September 10, 2005 by Jim R

[Jim R]

Well? ? ?

Here's another one I just found. A french site, which I had a bit of trouble navigating due to the language barrier, but the scans are LARGE.

http://www.positifs.org/jazz-passion/8-deq...chdisqindex.htm

Scroll down to the A-Z links, and click on the letter you want to search under. Another index page comes up, and you click on an artist name, then you have to scroll down and look at the various titles that they have. Then click on the "Cliquez ici" link to the album cover. I know there are at least some Prestige covers here, but the site looks like it would be useful for a lot of other labels (especially european).

[Hardbopjazz]

This is off the subjects, but browsing these sites and looking at the covers makes me think, how much shit there must be in the vaults of some of these companies. Most will probably not see the light of day again. I would like to get a hold of this one.

[Michael Fitzgerald]

Ummmm.....buy the Mosaic Jazztet set that was issued just over a year ago?

Mike

[marcello]

Check out this Japanese collector's site. He has a unbelievable collection with great scans, like this:

And this:

Yokosuka Gokudo

He also collects these strange dogs:

Odd reptiles:

Catus:

And he is a audiophile:

And that's not all!

And some of you guys think you have a collecting jones?

Edited September 18, 2005 by marcello

[Jim R]

Check out this Japanese collector's site.

Yokosuka  Gokudo

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This site has been posted about a number of times over the past couple of years, and if you look at my first post in this thread, you'll see that it was the first link I posted.

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BTW, that "Jazztet And John Lewis" cover is supposed to be in color (as you can see, there are a couple of letters missing in the scan above). There are a lot of dubious Argo reissues floating around... I've seen that one, and also Johnny Griffin's Argo LP, and Art Farmer's "ART", all of which had covers poorly reproduced in B&W.

Edited September 18, 2005 by Jim R

[marcello]

Geez Jim, I see it now but I overlooked it before.

You gotta admit, those toads (?) are really strange!

I wonder what his home looke like?