Pete Turner

Pete Turner (1934-2017)

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
September 21, 2017

Pete Turner, a commercial photographer who befriended jazz producer Creed Taylor early in his career in the late 1950s and whose richly saturated color images were used on album covers by Creed when he was at ABC-Paramount, Impulse, Verve, A&M and, most notably, CTI, died Sept. 18. Turner was 83. Pete's iconic images were featured on hundreds of album covers, including Oliver Nelson's The Blues and the Abstract Truth, Wes Montgomery's A Day in the Life, Antonio Carlos Jobim's Wave ...
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The Color Of Jazz: Album Cover Photographs By Pete Turner

Source: All About Jazz
June 14, 2006

Foreword by Quincy Jones Introduction by Ashley Kahn Afterword by Creed Taylor

In addition to a long and illustrious career in editorial, commercial, and fine art photography, Pete Turner's work has graced some of the most revolutionary and provocative album covers in the history of the medium. This fall Rizzoli will publish, The Color of Jazz: Album Cover Photographs by Pete Turner, a comprehensive celebration of fifty years of memorable album covers that benefited from Turner's ...
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