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

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

View The Drummer, Buddy Rich (1980) By David Stone Martin; lithograph; 19 x 15 1/2 in (48.2 x 39.3 cm); Signed; Edition. Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.

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...

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

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…

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

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David Stone Martin, writes Henry C. Pitc in the April 1950 issue of American Artist, "is a superb draftsman. He has a penetrating interest in human beings and the ability to reveal character. He has technical mastery. All this is sparked by physical energy and mental curiosity." "He has tried practically every pictorial tool, but one of his favorites is the crowquill pen-point. He uses it like a brush, freely, but deliberately. At times he allows it to produce the thin whisper of a line that…

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