Joe Henderson
Day 54
#36 – Joe Henderson (1937–2001). American jazz tenor saxophonist. Albums include: Page One (1963), Inner Urge (1965) and So Near, So Far – Musings for Miles (1993).
I wrote out his name and then started looking through photographs. I noticed the two ‘o’s’ in his name and these reminded me of Henderson’s glasses. I started working with this. To balance out the type I needed to add something. I looked at other album names and then thought the simplest thing would be to say ‘Sax by’ which fitted neatly. I explored different typefaces until I came across Eurostile where the shape of the ‘O’s looked like his glasses. To make them stand out I used grey for the other type. And when going through his albums I noticed he recorded an album called ‘Black is the Colour’. I thought this would be a nice link with the glasses. The white background seemed a little boring so the bright yellow really made it sing.
1.5 hours
Early layout idea
Listen...
to excerpts from ‘Inner Urge.’