A nod to Tina Brooks?

[bluesForBartok]

Anyone see the cover for this book?

I was walking by a Barnes and Noble and there it was in the window on display. I wonder if the contents of the book are as cool as the cover?

Edited March 19, 2004 by bluesForBartok

[wesbed]

I'm at work as I type these words. I can't pull out my CDs and reference material. Is the cover of True Blue a Reid Miles cover?

[Jazzmoose]

Yeah, it is.

[wesbed]

Yeah, it is.

Does it mean that, being a Reid Miles cover, the rights to the artwork belong to Blue Note? And, that the publisher of the book would have to get the rights to use the True Blue design? I don't know, just wondering.

Maybe the author or the publisher of the book is a Tina Brooks fan? Or, maybe just liked the design (regardless of Tina Brooks)?

[bluesForBartok]

Yeah I'm wondering those things myself. At the very least the jacket inside could give credit to the original source. It's got my curiosity. I'll have to swing back by the store and check it out.

[couw]

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[Brad]

Those people would have to pay royalties or at least get permisssion because that's a straight copy of True Blue, not to mention the moniker "The finest in jazz...". The Schwartz book is a little less blatant. You can bet that if they didn't have permission EMI's lawyers will or would have written them a letter to cease and desist.

Edited March 20, 2004 by Brad

[brownie]

Those people would have to pay royalties or at least get permisssion because that's a straight copy of True Blue, not to mention the moniker "The finest in jazz...". The Schwartz book is a little less blatant. You can bet that if they didn't have permission EMI's lawyers will or would have written them a letter to cease and desist.

Brad, The Paris Jazz Corner people that copied the 'True Blue' image for the cover of their sales catalogue do not sell their catalogues. They are distributed free of charge. They lift album covers as homage from the jazz fans they are to the originals. Two other catalogues from the PJC were copies of the Versailles LP 'Afternoon in Paris' by John Lewis and Sacha Distel (a similar cover was used on the Atlantic LP issue) and the French Vogue LP 'Tilt' by Barney Wilen.