not a fan

Perhaps the most surprising fact about Reid Miles: he never really was a jazz fan. The designer always worked with notes from one of the label’s founders, Alfred Lion, which described the recording sessions and the character of the album.

Reid Miles never cared much about most of the records—he gave his copies of Blue Note albums to friends or traded them in secondhand record stores for classical music. Yet Miles’ graphics never failed to create a perfect package for any album and reflected the nature of jazz itself.