Rock/hip hop album covers that are homages/ripoffs of jazz album covers

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― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 19 December 2003 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 19 December 2003 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

What are those parodies of?

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 19 December 2003 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

The Clinic one is an Ornette Coleman ripoff, J-Live is modelled on Coltrane's "Blue Train". The Joe Jackson one looks really familiar (has to be an Impulse release - no?) but I can't spot it off the bat.

Tone Loc's "Loc'd After Dark" to thread...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 19 December 2003 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

most of these are going to be blue not rip offs just because the design was so striking and recognizable

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i can't remember which this was just a blatant rip of. i think maybe a lee morgan record?

― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 19 December 2003 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

The new Yo La Tengo EP is Ornette Coleman's Something Else, but I'm scared to try to post a picture.

― dlp9001, Friday, 19 December 2003 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)

That Joe Jackson album cover is taken from Sonny Rollins Vol. 2 on Blue Note

― dylan (dylan), Friday, 19 December 2003 03:18 (twenty-one years ago)

The cover to the Cows' "Cunning Stunts" was inspired by Eric Dolphy's "Out to Lunch."

― dylan (dylan), Friday, 19 December 2003 03:21 (twenty-one years ago)

The first Spain album. Guru's Jazzmatazz.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Friday, 19 December 2003 03:22 (twenty-one years ago)

A rather obscure example: One of Titanic Love Affair's albums nicked from Thelonious Monk's "Genius of Modern Music."

Neil Young's late '80s blues/soul album (can't remember title) probably qualifies.

So far Joe Jackson's "Body & Soul" looks to be the pioneer. I wonder if we can come up with an earlier entry. For clarity's sake, it should be modeled after a specific jazz album cover.

― dylan (dylan), Friday, 19 December 2003 03:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Universal Congress Of's "This is Mecolodics" is taken from an Ornette Coleman album. Though whether that band is best described as rock or fake jazz is debatable.

― bedbug, Friday, 19 December 2003 06:16 (twenty-one years ago)

(I couldn't find an image on-line)

― bedbug, Friday, 19 December 2003 06:17 (twenty-one years ago)

(shudder)

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(It's on Blue Note, but whatever. This thread could be called "The Enduring Impact of Reid Miles's Blue Note Sleeve Designs")

― OCP (OCP), Friday, 19 December 2003 07:06 (twenty-one years ago)

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― NickB (NickB), Friday, 19 December 2003 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

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