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Strictly Jazz Series

Probably my favorite series of events to work on were our monthly jazz shows put on by Strictly Jazz Entertainment. The idea was that they would perform tribute sets based on some of the all-time greatest jazz musicians and, much like jazz itself, I had a lot of freedom to just take the idea and run with it. Before I came onboard they had been using a splotchy, image-traced style for the photos of the jazz greats. But over the course of a few months I eased the aesthetic into a more stylized, photo-based aesthetic. I think you can see a huge improvement if you compare the early posters (Lee Morgan, Nat King Cole, Dexter Gordon) to the later posters, particularly Joe Sample and Wes Montgomery/Charlie Christian. I think I really nailed those two, in particular.

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All Work by Jeremiah Matthews © 2021