Blue Note. Minimalist interpretation of Tina Brooks’s “True Blue” in the Reid Miles cover style.
Blue Note. Minimalist interpretation of Tina Brooks’s “True Blue” in the Reid Miles cover style.

BLUE NOTE

BLUE NOTE. This work is a trib­ute to the leg­endary cover art by Reid Miles for the jazz label Blue Note. Inspired by clean shapes, min­i­mal­ist typog­ra­phy, and strik­ing color fields, it direct­ly ref­er­ences the iconic album cover *True Blue* by Tina Brooks. Rec­tan­gu­lar planes in vary­ing shades of blue, com­ple­ment­ed by cir­cles and linear ele­ments, create a visual rhythm that cap­tures the impro­vi­sa­tion­al flow of jazz and rein­ter­prets it through a min­i­mal­ist aes­thet­ic. BLUE NOTE is part of the art series “Blue in a Squar”, which includes 300+ artworks.

It has to swing.

Social music—that’s what jazz essen­tial­ly is: musi­cians com­mu­ni­cat­ing with, against, and over one anoth­er. The impor­tance of jazz in my life can hardly be over­stat­ed. My child­hood and youth were defined by my love of jazz. That wasn’t always easy during puberty—who else was lis­ten­ing to jazz? Every­one else had ABBA, Sweet, and the Bay City Rollers on one side, and Black Sab­bath, Pink Floyd, and Nazareth on the other. So I had to musi­cal­ly assim­i­late a bit. That’s how soul, funk, and R&B found their way into my heart—along with a touch of pop and rock. But I always aimed to pick the raisins from every genre.

Blue Note Records and the East Coast jazz asso­ci­at­ed with it still shape my musi­cal upbring­ing today. That’s why the art­work ‘Blue Note’ is essen­tial. The chosen cover fits because it shows so many shades of blue. I also con­nect Blue Note with one of my great­est inspi­ra­tions: Reid Miles, who was respon­si­ble for many of the label’s iconic cover designs. I could say a lot about the how, who, and why—but that would go too far here. Instead, I simply encour­age you to listen to jazz: Miles Davis, Art Blakey & The Jazz Mes­sen­gers, Can­non­ball Adder­ley, Chet Baker—to name just a few. Just listen. Follow the conversations.

You can pur­chase the art­work ‘Blue Note’ exclu­sive­ly through my art shop. Simply fill out the online inquiry or send me an email. I’ll get back to you prompt­ly with a detailed quote and a pos­si­ble appointment.”

Canon Fine-Art inkjet print on pre­mi­um Hah­nemüh­le Photo Rag 308 gsm paper. Art­work size freely selec­table: from at least 20 × 20 cm up to 120 × 120 cm. Mount­ed on 2 mm alu­minum Dibond with a white wooden shadow-gap frame. Pricing/quote on request, depend­ing on size and quantity.

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