Album covers with 'negative' images of some sort ("negatives")

[Rooster_Ties]

I know there were a small handful of Blue Note covers -- mostly later 'King' Japanese covers, iirc, that also had "negatives" as part of the album cover.  (And, YES, I'd like to be reminded of all of them -- seems like there was a Dexter Gordon, and maybe(?) a Wayne Shorter too? Were there others? -- I'm forgetting.)

But first and foremost, the main one I'm thinking of is Action Action Action -- but was it the ONLY classic-era (non-Japanese-exclusive) Blue Note cover with a "negative"?

And, of course, this is a general thread to add any and all covers you can think of -- jazz, or otherwise -- that include "negatives" on the cover (or back cover, or inside cover, or whatever).

[HutchFan]

[Rooster_Ties]

Here's the Dex... Clubhouse.

(And for some reason I thought it had a red background -- but maybe I'm remembering something else.)

[Rooster_Ties]

OK, maybe(?) I was thinking of Jackie McLean's Tippin' The Scales -- which on first glance sorta(?) looks like a negative -- but really isn't actually...

[optatio]

Bud Powell: Inner Fires - The Genius Of Bud Powell. Elektra Musician MUS K 52 363 [1982]

[optatio]

1 hour ago, optatio said:

Bud Powell: Inner Fires - The Genius Of Bud Powell. Elektra Musician MUS K 52 363 [1982]

Sorry, I misunderstood ... 😉

[optatio]

Paul Bley Quintet: Barrage: ESP-Disk' ESP 1008-2

[Pim]

[Niko]

15 hours ago, Rooster_Ties said:

OK, maybe(?) I was thinking of Jackie McLean's Tippin' The Scales -- which on first glance sorta(?) looks like a negative -- but really isn't actually...

Same effect as on Schizophrenia it seems

[optatio]

Bob James: Hands Down. CBS 85848 [Holland 1982]

[optatio]

Fats Navarro: Vol. 2 Nostalgia. BYG Records 529 103 [France s.d.]

[optatio]

15 hours ago, optatio said:

Fats Navarro: Vol. 2 Nostalgia. BYG Records 529 103 [France s.d.]

Note: Fats Navarro: Vol. 1: "Boppin' A Riff". BYG Records 529 102 - same photo but 'positive'!

Edited August 19, 2025 by optatio

[optatio]

Sun Ra: Somewhere Else. Zensor ‎ZS 136 [Germany s.d.]

[optatio]

Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, John Tchicai, Roswell Rudd, Gary Peacock, Sonny Murray: New York Eye And Ear Control. ESP-Disk' / ZYX Music ESP 1016-2 [Germany 1992]

[optatio]

Various: Bangor Jazz Club Presents Jazz At The Vic. GJB 001 [UK 1982]

[optatio]

Marion Brown / Gunter Hampel: Reeds' N Vibes. Improvising Artists Inc.123855-2 [Italy 1978]

[BFrank]

[optatio]

Wayne Shorter: Adam's Apple. Blue Note/RVG Edition 7243 5 91901 2 9 [EU 2003]

[optatio]

David Liebman Plays Coltrane & Shorter. Aebersold Vol. 81 Play-A-Long. Jamey Aebersold Jazz 635621600225 [s.d.]

[Niko]

Don Patterson - Genius of the B3

[optatio]

The Beatles: Let It Be... Naked. Apple Records 07243 595714 2 3 [EU 2003]

[optatio]

Nirvana: Bleach. Tupelo Recording Company TUPLP6 [1989]

[Niko]

Gunter Hampel & Boulou Ferré – Espace

[clifford_thornton]

17 hours ago, optatio said:

Nirvana: Bleach. Tupelo Recording Company TUPLP6 [1989]

Such a great cover photo (and the album isn't too shabby either). I remember buying that on cassette, Sub Pop issue, in the fall of 1991, maybe days after I picked up Nevermind.