The Dave Brubeck Quartet – At Carnegie Hall album art
From Wikipedia:
At Carnegie Hall is a jazz live album by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. It was recorded at the famed Carnegie Hall in New York City on Friday, February 22, 1963. Critic Thom Jurek described it as “one of the great live jazz albums of the 1960s” […]
The title is rendered in tight-not-touching caps from Fiedler Gothic, a typeface drawn by Hal Fiedler for Photo-Lettering not too long before the album’s release. It’s shown in PLINC’s 1965 catalog in a range of widths and weights (see further below), with various alternates. Its use on this album cover inspired Austrian type designer David Einwaller to draw a digital interpretation which he released in 2020 as Brubeck.
With George Simon’s liner notes printed on the front (in Century Expanded), this album represents an addition to our “text on cover” tag.
Horn/Griner is credited for the cover photo. Steve Horn and Norm Griner started out in 1959 as a graphic design firm and ventured into photography a little later. It’s unclear whether they had a hand in the album’s typography as well. If not, it probably was done in-house at Columbia Records, under the supervision of John Berg who in 1961 was appointed art director for packaging design.
Fiedler Gothic came in many styles. Shown here is an overview of the Semi-concensed and Expanded widths (in fact, the Condensed and normal weights, photographically extended), each in five weights.
