Around January of 1956, Francis Wolff met Reid Miles, a commercial artist who was a devout classical music fan. they established a rapport. Beginning with Blue Note's ninth 12-inch album, Reid Miles became the designer for the label for the next eleven years. He relied on Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff to describe the mood and intent of each album and then created wonderful graphic covers that were different from each other, but still maintained an indefinable Blue Note look. "Blue Note Records were very meticulous in every aspect of their production: they used the best vinyl, they paid for rehearsals and when I asked to be in on the other parts of my album Alfred Lion (the label's founder) gave me every opportunity. A lot of musicians in those days worked very hard to make good music and once the music was done, they let Alfred Lion go with the rest of it. One day I went to Alfred and said, I want to sit down with you and look at the pictures you want to use and pick them together and check the sleeve notes before you print them. He agreed to that, and what I learnt about making a record I learnt from Alfred Lion.

I don t have a favourite cover of mine?t thinking back now you know, I kinda like the tokyo Blues cover!" Horace Silver (Blue Note Recording Star 1952 - 1979) Silveto Productions / Emerald Records 1990.