David stone

Original DSM illustration for the George Sevilla, classical guitarist album of the same name. Really nice.

Exploring David Stone Martin's jazz album covers he created for iconic musicians like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, and John Coltrane.

The Art of Drawing with Pencil, Pen and Brush (©1973 by M. Grumbacher, Inc. Designed & produced by Lester Rossin Associates Inc.)

David Stone Martin and his jazz album cover design. Notes and pictures from Birka Jazz Archive.

Meade Lux Lewis - Cat House Piano - Verve - 1955 - cover David Stone Martin??

Artist David Stone Martin made the sound of jazz visible through his amazing, rhythmic drawings which graced the covers of many great jazz albums.

I think I've often admired the work of American artist David Stone-Martin, but I haven't known his name or the full extent of his influence on postwar graphic design and illustration. He is most closely associated with the illustrations he...

David Stone Martin jazz album cover prints by www.jazzartz.com starting at $350, via Flickr

In the world of jazz there is one artist collected the world over who has never played an instrument not even a note of music but has left his mark on the jazz culture. Illustrator David Stone Martin (1913 – 1992) was one of the most prolific and influential graphic designers of the postwar era, with his signature hand-sketched graphics with two or three primary colours, perfectly capturing the energy and spontaneity of the jazz idiom. For biographical notes on Martin see part 1. For earlier…