Thread by @dean_frey, A thread of album covers featuring Richard Avedon portraits. From 1960: Igor [...]

A thread of album covers featuring Richard Avedon portraits.
From 1960: Igor Stravinsky conducts The Rite of Spring

Dave Brubeck Quartet: Red Hot & Cool, a live album from 1955
A wonderful photo by Richard Avedon. Paul Desmond, Bob Bates & Joe Dodge are all there, even if they& #39;re out of focus.
Love Walked In: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PStX6MYVXaE">https://www.youtube.com/watch...

Another Richard Avedon album cover: Broadway& #39;s Fair Julie, from 1961

Two Richard Avedon portraits of Tammy Grimes, from her first album for Columbia in 1962.

A superb Richard Avedon portrait is featured on the cover of Allen Ginsberg Reads Kaddish, 1966

Barbra Steisand by Richard Avedon
Je m& #39;appelle Barbra, from 1966
So many great things about this album: arrangements by Michel Legrand (&, in one song, Ray Ellis).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H82zy_O6doA&list=PLQL8vLGlM3ml33wyqzEZweJvEBA1l0-5l">https://www.youtube.com/watch...

I know Simon & Garfunkle& #39;s 1968 album Bookends really well; I remember listening to the LP. I don& #39;t expect I knew who Richard Avedon was in those days. A wonderful portrait.

Johnny Winter: Second Winter, from 1969
Superb portrait by Richard Avedon

Lenny by Dick Avedon, 1976

Muddy Waters by Richard Avedon
Hard Again, 1977
Mannish Boy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoVO9zZTJ10">https://www.youtube.com/watch...

Dexter Gordon by Richard Avedon
Gotham City, 1981

So many great Frank Zappa portraits; this is one of my all-time favourites, by Richard Avedon.
The Yellow Shark, with the Ensemble Modern, 1993. This was Zappa& #39;s last album; it was released a month before his death.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT8wlkAQAVM&list=PL8klFiOgynWC0RA9GlLISlSRF3PteVqsm&index=2">https://www.youtube.com/watch...

Mamaloshen by @PatinkinMandy, a Klezmer album from 1988
Photography royalty on this project: the photos of Patinkin are by Richard Avedon, the Statue of Liberty shot is by Joel Meyerowitz, & Alfred Stieglitz& #39;s The Steerage, from 1907, is featured on the back cover.

Another great double portrait by Richard Avedon: Ian Bostridge & Mitsuko Uchida. I adore their version of Schubert& #39;s Die Schöne Müllerin, released in 2005. Avedon died in October 2004, so this must have been one of his last projects.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F68116VBk1k&list=PLq7MWRGJO0XxUIq2fGIC1IeET7ReKZIWK">https://www.youtube.com/watch...

And here& #39;s one more posthumous cover from Richard Avedon. This Mitsuko Uchida Beethoven album was released in 2006.

I forgot to include the Mike Nichols & Elaine May covers in this Richard Avedon album cover thread! The first, from 1961, is An Evening With Mike Nichols & Elaine May.

With an even more wonderful back cover photo!

And from the following year, 1962, Mike Nichols & Elaine May Examine Doctors, with a great double portrait by Richard Avedon

Coincidentally, I& #39;m reading @MarkHarrisNYC& #39;s book Mike Nichols: A Life, & came across this scene, where Avedon invites Nichols & May to his apartment. This was in 1959.

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