Illustrator David Stone Martin was one of the most prolific and influential graphic designers of the postwar era, creating over 400 album covers. With his signature hand-drawn calligraphic lines, DSM perfectly captured the energy and spontaneity of the jazz idiom.    ...

We Are Family is one of the most iconic dance albums of all time.the ‘Greatest Dancer’, ‘Lost in Music’, and ‘Thinking of You’ and to the greater cultural context of disco and it’s legacy.

It’s hard to think of a musician more evocative of the 1980’s than Sade Adu. Known, alongside her bandmates Paul Denman, Andrew Hale, and Stuart Matthewman, as simply Sade, her sophisticated poise and icy cool vocals came to soothe an era of rapid change, spiralling...

Tapestry was Carole King’s second album following on from the previous year’s The Writer and featured a tracklist that was completely written or co-written by the veteran songwriter.Some of the tracks had previously been hits for others such as Aretha Franklin’s “(You...

2019 marks the 80th anniversary of Blue Note Records.Alfred Lion (April 21,1908  - February 2, 1987) was a Jewish German-born American record executive who co-founded Blue Note Records.Reid Miles (4 July 1927 - 2 February 1993) was an American graphic designer best...

Yvonne Fair "It Should Have Been Me" / Outkast  "Ms. Jackson" / Wagner's Bridal Chorus