Editing Blue Note Records (section)

===Cover art===
{{main|Album covers of Blue Note Records}}
In 1956, Blue Note employed [[Reid Miles]], an artist who worked for ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'' magazine.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> The cover art produced by Miles, often featuring Wolff's photographs of musicians in the studio, was as influential in the world of graphic design as the music within would be in the world of jazz.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.computerarts.co.uk/in_depth/features/design_icon_blue_note |title=Creative Bloq |publisher=Computerarts.co.uk |date=2013-09-06 |access-date=2015-05-20}}</ref> Under Miles, Blue Note was known for their striking and unusual album cover designs.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> Miles' graphical design was distinguished by its tinted black and white photographs, creative use of [[sans-serif]] typefaces, and restricted color palette (often black and white with a single color), and frequent use of solid rectangular bands of color or white, influenced by the [[Bauhaus]] school of design.<ref>Martin Gayford [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/worldfolkandjazz/5777401/Blue-Note-Records-from-Ammons-to-Monk-it-was-home-to-the-jazz-idealists.html "Blue Note Records: from Ammons to Monk, it was home to the jazz idealists"], ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', 15 July 2009</ref>

Though Miles' work is closely associated with Blue Note and has earned iconic status and frequent homage, Miles was only a casual jazz fan, according to Richard Cook;<ref>Cook, Richard, ''Blue Note Records: The Biography'', Boston: Justin Charles, 2003; {{ISBN|1-932112-10-3}}</ref> Blue Note gave him several copies of each of the many dozens of albums he designed, but Miles gave most to friends or sold them to second-hand record shops. A few mid-1950s album covers featured drawings by a then-unknown [[Andy Warhol]].<ref>[http://www.bluenote.com/detail.asp?SelectionID=10559] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071104231124/http://www.bluenote.com/detail.asp?SelectionID=10559|date=November 4, 2007}}</ref>

Some of his most celebrated designs adorned the sleeves of albums such as ''[[Midnight Blue (Kenny Burrell album)|Midnight Blue]]'', ''[[Out to Lunch!]]'', ''[[Unity (Larry Young album)|Unity]]'', ''[[Somethin' Else (Cannonball Adderley album)|Somethin' Else]]'', ''[[Let Freedom Ring]]'', ''[[Hub-Tones]]'', ''[[No Room for Squares]]'', ''[[Cool Struttin']]'', and ''[[The Sidewinder]]''.