The New Trumpet album art
The New Trumpet is an album with “works for trumpet with tape and piano”, by
Peter Maxwell Davies, Lucia Dlugoszewski, William Hellermann, Gerard Schwarz, and Ursula Oppens. It was released by Nonesuch Records in 1972. The cover design is by Jo Ann Gruber, with art by Gene Szafran and art direction by Robert L. Heimall.
The typeface chosen for the title is a then recent release by Photo-Lettering. Printed in a brassy yellow, West Buggie perfectly represents the theme: not only do its bracketed serifs resemble a trumpet’s bell, the high contrast of its letterforms also echoes the thick and thin parts of the instruments. Gruber arranged the three lines so that the two initials t’s as well as the two e’s of the first and second word are aligned.
Detail: musicians and titles are set in LSC Condensed.
The call to action on the inner sleeve uses contoured Benguiat Charisma Script.
