Throughout the fifties and sixties, the Blue Note record label embodied one word: style. Blue Note 2 features over 200 examples of the cutting-edge album covers designed for Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, and other jazz greats. Featuring rare sleeves coveted by collectors and seldom glimpsed elsewhere, this book is the ultimate entree into the smoky days of Birdland, dark glasses, and what Esquire called "the essence of cool.".