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Reid Miles & Andy Warhol: Johnny Griffin, The Congregation, Blue Note 1580 (1958)

Reid Miles & Andy Warhol: Johnny Griffin, The Congregation, Blue Note 1580 (1958)

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10 FEB 2022

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The Warhol Album Cover Edition

Johnny Griffin’s album featuring a cover designed by Andy Warhol in collaboration with Reid Miles, based on photos by Francis Wolff.

10 FEB 2022

Matt Locke

The Warhol Album Cover Edition

The cover of Johnny Griffin's 'The Congregation' features a vivid blue and green flower pattern, with a dip-pen ink line, tracing Griffin’s relaxed pose with his saxophone. It's an early example of Warhol's style, done in collaboration with Reid Miles.

The next Warhol-Miles cooperation for Blue Note records follows the same path as the Kenny Burrell album: in 1956 there was an album called Introducing Johnny Griffin, with a cover designed by Reid Miles and a photo of Griffin by Francis Wolff. So for the next Griffin album on Blue Note with a Reid Miles design, Miles asks Warhol to make a graphic interpretation of the Francis Wolff photo portrait.

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