Jazz for the Jet Set - Dave Pike

This vinyl entitled Jazz for the Jett Set was released by Atlantic, jazz vibraphonist and marimba player, Dave Pike in 1966. This album featured an all-star lineup of a flawless blend of jazz, Latin, soul, and R&B that remains timeless today. It was produced by Pike’s reoccurring collaborator, Herbie Mann, and featured Herbie Hancock on organ, Clark Terry on trumpet, Billy Butler on guitar, Grady Tate on drums, and many other talented musicians. Coming from an artistic outlook, the album marked a vital time in Pike’s career, where he started moving away from straight-ahead jazz and starting to form a crucial relationship with soul music, Latin rhythms, pop arrangements, and more experimental styles. The cover is a coated thin cardboard with a gradated watermelon pink that highlighted the title in a slab serif font with Pike’s emerald green name. This piece is important to graphic design history for its retro and funky asymmetrical model pose with the accompanying green boot that matches the green in the title drawing your eye upward.