"We took so many left turns, but it would have been an entirely different book had we stopped at a certain point.

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"We took so many left turns, but it would have been an entirely different book had we stopped at a certain point. So I'm grateful it took a lot of time."

Bob Weinstock believed in treating music and album covers equally as serious art, and 'WAIL,' by Chris Entwistle and Mark Havens, reveals how that conviction produced a graphic legacy still being imitated today. The Tonearm's Bill Kopp seeks out these grand designs.

Graphical Jazz — The Unsung Canvas of Prestige Records:

Graphical Jazz: The Visual Legacy of Prestige Records

Chris Entwistle and Mark Havens's WAIL reveals how Prestige Records produced jazz album cover art as revolutionary as the music itself.

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