Meade Lux Lewis - Cat House Piano

the object : Album cover
the musician: Meade Lux Lewis
the title: Cat house piano
the designer : David Stone Martin
the date : 1955
the tune:  boogie woogie

Four freshmen and five trombones

the object : Album cover
the musician: Four Freshmen
the title: Four freshmen and 5 trombones
the label: Capitol
the designer : unknown
the date : 1955
the tune:  Angel eyes

Billie Holiday live poster

the object: Billie Holiday live poster
the musician: Billie Holiday 
the artist : Dennis Loren
the date: 1948

Thelonius Monk and Sonny Rollins album cover

the object : Album cover
the musician: Thelonius Monk and Ronny Rollins
the title: The Prestige Sessions
the designer : H.P. Corbissero
the date : 1954

Benny Goodman album cover

the object : Album cover
the musician: Benny Goodmann Quintet
the title: Jazz Festival Series
the designer : unknown
the date : 1961

Monterey Jazz Festival poster

the object : Monterey Jazz Festival poster
the designer : Earl Newman
the date : 1966

Album cover - Chicago Style Jazz

the object: Album cover 
the designer: Neil Fujita
the illustrator: Ben Shahn
the title: Chicago Style Jazz
the date:1955

Robert Brownjohn - American jazz annual in 1956

the object : Album cover
the designer : Robert Brownjohn
the date : 1956

Chano Dominguez - Piano Iberico

the object: album cover
the artist: Chano Dominguez
the title: Piano Iberico
the designer: Unknown 
the date: 2009

Calle 54 - Album cover

the object: Album cover 
the designer: Javier Mariscal 
the title: Calle 54
the tune: Panamericana 
the date: 2000

Masterpiece of Paula Scher

the object: masterpiece, tribute to the pioneers of the Russian avant garde
the designer: Paula Scher
the title: The best of jazz
the date: 1979

Montreux festival poster

the object: festival poster
the designer: Milton Glaser
the date: 1976

Album covers by Reid Miles

the object: LP cover
the musician:Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers
the designer: Reid Miles
the photo: Francis Wolff

the date: 1959

the object: LP cover
the musician: Tina Brooks
album title: True Blue
the designer: Reid Miles
the date: 1960

the object: LP cover
the musician: Horace Parlan
album title: Us Three
the designer: Reid Miles
the date: 1960

Miles Davis LP cover

the object: LP cover
the musician: Miles Davis Quintet
the designer: Reid Miles
the illustrator: Phil Hays
the date: 1957

Frank Wess album cover

the object: album cover
the musician: Frank Wess 
the artist : Don Schlitten
the date: 1963

The Cotton Club poster

the object: The Cotton Club poster
the musician: Cab Calloway 
the artist : Dennis Loren
the date: 1931

Aspen Winter Jazz Poster

the object: Aspen Winter Jazz poster
the artist : Roy Lichtenstein
the date: 1967 

Album cover - Duke Ellington

the musician : Duke Ellington
the tune : Anatomy of a murder
the artist : Saul Bass
the date : 1959

Album cover - The Goodman style

the musician : Anders Burman
the album : The Goodman style
the artist : Stig Söderqvist
the date : 1955

Metronome Records was founded in Stockholm 1949 by the jazz drummer Anders Burman, his brother Lars and a friend, Börje Ekberg. A Danish division was founded in 1950 and a German in 1954. Starting with 78s, the first 10" jazz LP was issued in 1951. Another about 10 LPs followed, before the first EP-album was released in 1953. This format was dominated into the early 1960s then the 12" LP broke through.Then, in the 1960s, Metronome more and more went to pop music.

Stig Söderqvist was the house designer at Metronome. He was also known as a top jazz musician, playing trumpet and valve trombone with Bernt Rosengren and others. Söderqvist created hundreds of covers for the label, sometimes with excellent liner drawings which shows affenity to the works of David Stone Martin.

Album cover - East of the sun by Zoot Sims

the musician : Zoot Sims and Rosolino - Person Sextett
the tune : East of the sun
the artist : Stig Söderqvist
the date : 1954

The label Karusell was started by the Swedish bassplayer and bandleader Simon Brehm in 1952. Mostly a label for pop music, but also jazz. Worth mention is the co-operation with Norman Granz. Among other things it came to some recordings by American musicians in Sweden. Simon Brehm died in 1967 and Karusell was sold to Polygram.