Album Cover Art, Art for Music

Art for CD - original size Caribbean 2 - Digital Painting 2005

In addition to my own recent CD, I recently did artwork for another group. The cover and information about The Latin Quarter Jazz Collective can be found on their site.

Other CD Cover designs can be seen on this site - Caribbean 1, Caribbean 4, and the cover art Caribbean 3. In addition, you can see other CD Covers at the Outhouse Studios Music page.

So if there is a point to be made, I suppose it is that the merger of music and art is a particularly fun area for me.  I enjoyed the challenge of coming up with the appropriate work for the nature of the music - and have enjoyed the challenge of coming up with the appropriate artwork for the music I have recorded.

I have discussed art coming from a concept before - but pairing with music is more than just a concept - it must fit the music as well as the theme.

As it turns out the above artwork, though not chosen for the cover can be found on the actual CD - guess that even more literally fits the music.

See Also

• CD’s - Latin Quarter Jazz Collective
  Information about CD’s and view CD cover art
• Cin Weekly - Music Appreciation
  Article about album cover photography and music
• Sideman to musical ghosts - New York Times
  On the missing connection between art and music - amusing and curious