Front cover of 1971 vinyl

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Fairyland is a live album by jazz guitarist Larry Coryell. All songs were recorded on June 18, 1971 at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland and originally released by Mega Records on their Flying Dutchman Series. Coryell is accompanied by Chuck Rainey on bass and Bernard Purdie on drums.

Artist name and album title are set in Green Buzzard’s C style . Additional text on the front and back covers is set in Helvetica. The Flying Dutchman Series mark looks to be set in Annlie.

Cover painting by Gage Taylor. Front cover photo by John Knaggs, BBM Associates. Back cover photo by Giuseppe Pino. Design by Haig Adishian.

Back cover of 1971 vinyl

Cover of the 2017 remaster on Audio CD

Debut album by jazz fusion group The Eleventh House, led by the guitarist Larry Coryell. The cover design is by Jules Halfant (1909–2001) who served as the art director of Vanguard Records from 1953 to 1988. The typeface he chose is Busorama. Drawn by Tom Carnase and produced at Photo-Lettering, the Art Deco-ish geometric sans was released in 1970 as one of the first typefaces by ITC. It comes with a large number of alternates, some of which were used here, like the narrower E, or the H with protruding crossbar. The latter is a bit of a strange choice, as it causes spacing issues in “THE” and “HOUSE”. My hunch is that Halfant used Letraset’s adaptation of Busorama Bold, which came exclusively with this form of H.

The artwork is by Jacques Wyrs. Halfant repeatedly worked with the multicolored paintings by the Paris-based artist for records by Coryell, see also Spaces (1974) or Planet End (1975).

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On the back cover, the band name is shown in reversed Skin & Bones, with the names of the members in Century Expanded. The track list uses Melior.

First released in 1970 with a different cover, this is Jules Halfant’s design as used for the second pressing from France, issued in 1974 on Vanguard Records. The type shown reversed on the psychedelic painting by Jacques Wyrs features Aki Lines for the title and ITC Bernase Roman for credits, the latter with one of its double-storey a forms and the alternate descending C. The Vanguard logo uses Jana.

See also Introducing The Eleventh House (1974).

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This 1971 album makes vividly dichromatic use of Rudolf Koch’s seldomly seen Zeppelin. The album designer is unlisted, but photography is credited to Bob Gruen. The name of guitarist Larry Coryell (full name Lorenz Albert Van DeLinder III, 1943–2017) is set in all-caps Helvetica.

The record label logo of Flying Dutchman uses what looks like Poster Bodoni Italic or a similar face like Normande.

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1971 Dutch pressing.