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Designer of booklet and jackets. Based in Chicago, owner of [l1362006].

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Live at SPACE Volume 1

2025, LP, Delmark Records

Willie Buck And The Delmark All-Stars

Live At Buddy Guy's Legends

2024, CD, Album, Delmark,

Nicole Mitchell & Ballaké Sissoko

Bamako*Chicago Sound System

Experimental/Avant-garde Jazz

Kevin O'Connell Quartet Featuring Adam Brenner

Hot New York Minutes

2023, CD, Not On Label

Legends And Legacies II

2022, CD, Album, Asian Improv Records,

While We're Here

2022, CD, Album, Timezone Records

Joanie Pallatto Featuring Fareed Haque

My Original Plan

2021, CD, Southport Records

Bass Dreams minus B

Bass Dreams minus B

2021, LP, Album, FPE Records (2)

Sugar Ray & The Bluetones Featuring Little Charlie Baty

Too Far From The Bar

2020, CD, Album, Severn Records

Johnny Iguana's Chicago Spectacular! (A Grand And Upright Celebration Of Chicago Blues Piano)

2020, CD, Album, Delmark Records

Goran Ivanović & Fareed Haque

2020, CD, Album, Delmark Records

2019, CD, Album, Severn Records,

Harmonica Blues/Memphis Blues/Soul

Soul Message Band

2019, CD, Album, Delmark Records,

Blues From The Inside Out

Fred Anderson Quartet

Mud Morganfield

They Call Me Mud

2018, CD, Album, Severn Records

Joseph "Mojo" Morganfield

2018, CD, EP, Not On Label,

Fred Anderson Legacy Band

Legacy Live • Volume One

2018, CD, Album, Asian Improv Records

The Miyumi Project

And Then They Came For Us / Un-American

2017, CD, Album, Asian Improv Records

Flamin' Groovies*

Fantastic Plastic

Power Pop/Rock & Roll/Beat

Blues And Boogie Vol. 1

Harmonica Blues

Sugar Ray And The Bluetones*

Seeing Is Believing

2016, CD, Album, Severn Records

Matthew Skoller

Blues Immigrant

2016, CD, Album, Tongue 'N Groove Records

The Miyumi Project, Yoko Ono

2016, CD, Album, Asian Improv Records

The Fabulous Thunderbirds

Strong Like That

2015, CD, Album, Ropeadope Records,

Contemporary Jazz

2015, CD, Album, , Severn Records

The Cash Box Kings

2015, CD, Album, Blind Pig Records

Raise Your Hands!

2015, CD, Album, Severn Records,

George Freeman / Chico Freeman

All In The Family

2015, CD, Southport Records

Four Star Brass Band

Get Your Four Star On!

2015, HDCD, TDP Music & Productions,

Big Band/Dixieland

Smokin' Joe Kubek & Bnois King

Fat Man's Shine Parlor

Albert Cummings

Someone Like You

Electric Blues/Modern Electric Blues

Andy T - Nick Nixon Band

Mud Morganfield & Kim Wilson

For Pops / A Tribute To Muddy Waters

2014, CD, Album, Severn Records

Billy Branch & The Sons Of Blues*

Modern Electric Blues/Harmonica Blues

Sugar Ray & The Bluetones

Living Tear To Tear

Harmonica Blues/Electric Blues

Patricia Barber

Nicole Mitchell's Ice Crystal

2013, CD, Album, Delmark Records,

Avant-garde Jazz/Contemporary Jazz

Barrelhouse Chuck & Kim Wilson's Blues All-Stars

Driftin' From Town To Town

2013, CD, Album, The Sirens Records, The Sirens Records,

2013, 2xCD, Comp, Severn Records

Chris James & Patrick Rynn*

Barrelhouse Stomp

2013, CD, Album, Earwig Music

The Cash Box Kings

2013, CD, Album, Blind Pig Records,

Erwin Helfer With John Brumbach, William "Bugs" Cochran*, Lou Marini (2), Skinny Williams, Barrelhouse Chuck

Erwin Helfer Way

2013, CD, The Sirens Records

Jimmy Vivino & The Black Italians

2013, CD, Album, Blind Pig Records,

The Fabulous Thunderbirds

2012, CD, Album, Northport

Eddie C. Campbell Special Guest Lurrie Bell

Spider Eating Preacher

2012, CD, Album, Delmark Records, Delmark Records,

Big James And The Chicago Playboys

The Big Payback (Recorded Live)

2012, CD, Album, Blind Pig Records,

Funk/Modern Electric Blues

Pinetop Perkins

Magic Slim & The Teardrops

Modern Electric Blues/Chicago Blues

The Cash Box Kings

Holler And Stomp

2011, CD, Album, Blind Pig Records,

Sugar Ray & The Bluetones

2011, CD, Album, Severn Records

Chris James Patrick Rynn*

Gonna Boogie Anyway

2010, CD, Album, Earwig Music

Back In The Fire

2010, CD, Album, Blind Pig Records,

Modern Electric Blues/Blues Rock

Pinetop Perkins, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith*

Joined At The Hip

2010, CD, Album, Telarc

2010, CD, Album, Severn Records,

Modern Electric Blues/Harmonica Blues

Back Around Here

2010, CD, Album, Earwig Music,

Modern Electric Blues

Magic Slim & The Teardrops

Raising The Bar

2009, CD, Album, Blind Pig Records

The Essential Coco Montoya

2009, CD, Comp, Blind Pig Records

Darrell Nulisch

2009, HDCD, Album, Severn Records,

Harmonica Blues/Electric Blues

Big James And The Chicago Playboys

Right Here Right Now

2009, CD, Album, Blind Pig Records,

Modern Electric Blues/Funk

George "Harmonica" Smith*

Now You Can Talk About Me

2009, Vinyl 180 gram,

Chris James And Patrick Rynn

Stop And Think About It

2008, CD, Album, Earwig Music

Priscilla Herdman

2008, CD, Album, Stardreamer Music,

The Imagination Stage

Dave Douglas & Keystone

Contemporary Jazz

The Lost Tapes (Recorded Live)

Let's Talk About Love

2007, CD, Album, Aria B.G. Records,

Darrell Nulisch

Goin' Back To Dallas

2007, CD, Album, Severn Records

Chris Harper (6) And Sharade Band

Blues Is My Life

2007, CD, Album, Promo, Not On Label

2007, CD, Album, Blind Pig Records

Sugar Ray & The Bluetones

My Life, My Friends, My Music

Jump Blues/Harmonica Blues

Honeyboy Edwards*

Roamin' And Ramblin'

Smokin' Joe Kubek & Bnois King

My Heart's In Texas

2006, CD, Album, Blind Pig Records,

Blues Rock/Texas Blues

2006, CD, Album, Southport Records,

The Way Things Go

Presents Michael Hartman Todd A. Carter And Brent Gutzeit As TV Pow

Keep On Believing

2005, CD, Album, Severn Records

Sugar Ray & The Bluetones

Hands Across The Table

2005, CD, Severn Records

Roscoe Mitchell / Tatsu Aoki

First Look: Chicago Duos

2005, CD, Album, Southport Records

The Matthew Skoller Band*

These Kind Of Blues!

2005, CD, Album, Tongue 'N Groove Records,

Harmonica Blues/Chicago Blues

Respect Yourself

Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls

Breeding Resistance

2004, CD, Album, Delmark Records,

2004, CD, Album, Severn Records, Severn Records,

Did You Ever Wonder?

2004, CD, Album, Severn Records,

Electric Blues/Harmonica Blues

Jelly Roll All-Stars

Must Be Jelly (Live At Wrox In Clarksdale, Mississippi)

2004, CD, Album, Severn Records

Albert Cummings

True To Yourself

Electric Blues/Modern Electric Blues

Back At The Velvet Lounge

2003, CD, Album, Delmark Records,

Chicago's Avant Today

2003, CD, Delmark Records,

St. Charles Singers

I Know Where I'm Going

2003, CD, Album, Proteus Entertainment,

Big Joe Williams

2003, CD, Album, Comp, Delmark Records, Delmark Records

Back To The Delta

2003, CD, Album, Delmark Records, Delmark Records,

Country Blues/Chicago Blues

Rob Stone & The C·Notes* Featuring Chris James (17) & Patrick Rynn Special Guests Dave Myers & Sam Lay

2003, CD, Album, Earwig Music,

Chicago Blues/Harmonica Blues

Big Bill Morganfield

Blues In The Blood

Johnny B. Moore

Rockin' In The Same Old Boat

Anthony Braxton

Four Compositions (GTM) 2000

Smokin' Joe Kubek & Bnois King

Roadhouse Research

Kahil El'Zabar Trio Featuring David Murray And Fred Hopkins

Love Outside Of Dreams

2002, CD, Album, Delmark Records, Delmark Records,

Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation

Alex "Guitar Slim" Seward* And Louis "Jelly Belly" Hayes* With Blind Willie McTell * Champion Jack Dupree * Brownie McGhee

The Back Porch Boys

2002, CD, Comp, Delmark Records, Delmark Records,

Eddie Burns With Jimmy Burns

2002, CD, Album, Delmark Records, Delmark Records

Illinois Jacquet

Jumpin' At Apollo

2002, CD, Comp, Delmark Records,

2002, CD, Comp, Delmark Records, Delmark Records,

On The Battlefield... (Great Gospel Quartets)

2002, CD, Comp, Delmark Records

Sleepy John Estes, Yank Rachell, Hammie Nixon

Memphis Slim And His House Rockers* With Matt "Guitar" Murphy*

Rockin' Wild In Chicago

Blind Pig Records 25th Anniversary Collection

Magic Slim & The Teardrops

Crazy Kind Of Life

Shirley Johnson

Chicago Blues/Vocal

Ilhan Mimaroglu

Outstanding Warrants

2001, CD, Album, Southport Records, The Southport Composers Series

Kahil El'Zabar / Billy Bang

Spirits Entering

2001, CD, Album, Delmark Records

On The Run: Live At The Velvet Lounge

2001, CD, Album, Delmark Records, Delmark Records,

Roy Campbell Pyramid Trio

Ethnic Stew And Brew

2001, CD, Album, Delmark Records

Live At The Dakota

2001, CD, Album, Premonition Records

Erwin Helfer With John Brumbach

I'm Not Hungry But I Like To Eat - BLUES!

2001, CD, Album, The Sirens Records,

Chicago Blues/Piano Blues/Boogie Woogie

George Flynn, Geoffrey Douglas Madge

2001, CD, Album, Southport Records

Malachi Thompson, Hamiet Bluiett, Oliver Lake

2001, CD, Album, Delmark Records,

Free Jazz/Post Bop

2001, CD, Album, Blue Chicago

Live At The Green Mill

2001, CD, Album, Delmark Records, Delmark Records,

Steve Gillette, Cindy Mangsen

A Sense Of Place

2001, CD, Album, Redwing Music

Jesse Thomas (2) With John Primer & Jodie Christian

Blues Is A Feeling

2001, CD, Album, Delmark Records, Delmark Records

Hello Central... Give Me Doctor Jazz

2001, CD, Comp, Delmark Records,

Dixieland/Swing

The Jodie Christian Trio*

2001, CD, Album, Delmark Records

Big Bill Morganfield

Deborah Coleman

Poi Dog Pondering

Sweeping Up The Cutting Room Floor (Previously Unreleased Studio Out Takes 1987-1994)

This Is The Blues Harmonica

2000, CD, Album, Comp, Delmark Records,

Blues Rock/Chicago Blues/Harmonica Blues

Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble*

2000, CD, Album, Delmark Records,

Contemporary Jazz

Phil Haynes & Free Country

Phil Haynes & Free Country

2000, CD, Album, Premonition Records

Von Freeman And Frank Catalano

You Talkin' To Me?!

2000, CD, Album, Delmark Records,

Poi Dog Pondering

Soul Sonic Orchestra

2000, CD, Album, Platetectonic Records,

Alternative Rock/Pop Rock

2000, CD, Album, Delmark Records, Delmark Records,

2000, CD, Album, Delmark Records,

2000, CD, Album, Enh, Blue Chicago

2000, CD, Album, Delmark Records

The City Lights Quartet

Chicago Tonight

2000, CD, Not On Label (The City Lights Quartet Self-released)

Jimmy Thackery & The Drivers

Paul Wertico Trio

Don't Be Scared Anymore

Deborah Coleman

Soft Place To Fall

Liz Mandville Greeson

1999, CD, Album, Earwig Music

Millennium Blues

1999, CD, Album, Earwig Music

Roscoe Mitchell Quartet

In Walked Buckner

1999, CD, Album, Delmark Records,

Avant-garde Jazz/Free Jazz

1999, CD, Album, Blind Pig Records,

Johnny B. Moore And Willie Kent With Special Guests Mad Dog Lester Davenport* And Bonnie Lee

Acoustic Blue Chicago

1999, CD, Album, Blue Chicago

Ken Vandermark's Sound In Action Trio, Robert Barry (2) / Ken Vandermark / Tim Mulvenna

Free Jazz/Free Improvisation

Archie Shepp Meets Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio

Ethnic Heritage Ensemble

Freedom Jazz Dance

Big Bill Morganfield

Delmark Records - 45 Years Of Jazz And Blues

1998, 2xCD, Comp, Delmark Records,

Return Of The Lost Tribe

1998, CD, Album, Delmark Records

Malachi Thompson

1998, CD, Album, Delmark Records

The Golden Age Of Blue Chicago

1998, CD, Album, Comp, Blue Chicago,

Anne Hills & Cindy Mangsen

1998, CD, Album, Flying Fish (2)

1998, CD, Album, Southport Records,

Bossa Nova/Latin Jazz

Robert Mazurek* / Chicago Underground Orchestra

Contemporary Jazz/Cool Jazz

Make Room For The Blues

Eric Alexander With Harold Mabern

A Chicago Blues Tour

Chicago Blues/Electric Blues

Jimmy Thackery And The Drivers*

Switching Gears

Dave Specter, Lenny Lynn

Blues Spoken Here

Rigging The Toplights

First Light: Chicago 1969-71

Priscilla Herdman

Fred - Chicago Chamber Music

1997, 2xCD, Album, Southport Records

Clark Street Ramblers Blue Chicago

1997, CD, Album, Comp, Blue Chicago,

Johnny B. Moore

1997, CD, Album, Delmark Records,

1997, Cass, Album, Not On Label

The Ultimate Seaside Companion

Folk Rock/Synth-pop

Floyd McDaniel With Dave Specter And The Bluebirds

West Side Baby (Live in Europe)

Chicago Blues/Electric Blues/Jump Blues

Roosevelt Sykes

Feel Like Blowing My Horn

Made For Each Other

A Chicago Jazz Tour

Priscilla Herdman, Anne Hills, Cindy Mangsen*

Voices of Winter

Triple Fast Action*

All The Gin Is Gone

Heart Of Chicago

Terry Callier, Eric Hochberg, Penn McGee

Studebaker John And The Hawks*

Blu Lu Barker*, Wee Bea Booze* & Baby Dee

Don't You Feel My Leg (Apollo's Lady Blues Singers)

1996, CD, Album, Comp, Delmark Records, Delmark Records

G.I. Ay, Ay! Blues

Studebaker John & The Hawks

Brewer Phillips

The White Rim Of Heaven

Art Rock/Avantgarde

Triple Fast Action*

1995, 7", HitIt! Recordings

Prime Chops Volume 3

1995, CD, Comp, Smplr, Blind Pig Records,

Studebaker John And The Hawks*

Outside Lookin' In

1995, CD, Album, Blind Pig Records,

Married To The Blues

1995, CD, Album, Flying Fish (2),

Harmonica Blues/Modern Electric Blues

Malachi Thompson & Africa Brass Featuring Lester Bowie

Buddy Bolden's Rag {100 Years Of Jazz}

1995, CD, Album, Delmark Records,

Big Band/Post Bop/Ragtime/Afro-Cuban Jazz

Willie "Big Eyes" Smith* With Special Guests Kim Wilson And Pinetop Perkins

Bag Full Of Blues

1995, CD, Album, Blind Pig Records,

1995, CD, Album, Flying Fish (2)

Little Mike And The Tornadoes

1995, CD, Album, Flying Fish (2)

The Age Of The Circle

Safe To Imagine

Sittin Here Wonderin

Crime Ridden Society

Long Way From Home

Jimmy Thackery & The Drivers

Wild Night Out!

Cause For Alarm / Warzone

Cause For Alarm / Warzone

Shiner (5) / Molly McGuire

Crush / Exhaust

1994, 7", Hitit! Recordings,

Alternative Rock/Indie Rock

1994, CD, Album, Blind Pig Records,

Modern Electric Blues

Eddie C. Campbell

That's When I Know

1994, CD, Album, Blind Pig Records,

Modern Electric Blues

Goin' Back In The Times

1994, CD, Album, Earwig Music,

1994, CD, Album, Flying Fish (2),

Harmonica Blues/Modern Electric Blues

Reginald R. Robinson

Sounds In Silhouette

1994, CD, Album, Delmark Records

Studebaker John And The Hawks*

1994, CD, Album, Blind Pig Records,

1994, CD, Album, Earwig Music,

Piano Blues/Chicago Blues

Arnett Blows For 1300

1994, CD, Album, Delmark Records

1994, CD, Comp, Delmark Records, Delmark Records

Anne Hills & Cindy Mangsen

Charlie Musselwhite

The Harmonica According To Charlie Musselwhite

Kahil El'Zabar Ritual Trio*

Renaissance Of The Resistance

Earl Hines & The Duke's Men

Earl Hines & The Duke's Men

Jimmy Thackery & The Drivers

1994, CD Nimbus Pressing,

Little Willie Anderson

Swinging The Blues

1993, CD, Album, Delmark Records,

Free Jazz/Post Bop/Contemporary Jazz

H-Bomb Ferguson

1993, CD, Album, Earwig Music

Mike Smith Quintet

1993, CD, Album, Delmark Records

David "Honeyboy" Edwards / Sunnyland Slim / Walter Horton / Kansas City Red / Floyd Jones

Old Friends Together For The First Time

Jimmy Thackery & John Mooney

Sideways In Paradise

Harmonica Blues

The Blues World Of Little Walter

Chicago Blues/Harmonica Blues

Mitch Woods And His Rocket 88's

Shakin' The Shack

Malachi Thompson

1992, CD, Album, Delmark Records

1992, CD, Album, Comp, Delmark Records,

Vassar Clements

Once In A While

1992, CD, Album, Flying Fish (2),

Lin Halliday With Ira Sullivan

East Of The Sun

1992, CD, Album, Delmark Records

Call Of The Gators

Jimmy Thackery & The Drivers

Empty Arms Motel

Big Joe Williams

Blues On Highway 49

Crossing Borders

Little Mike And The Tornadoes

Coleman Hawkins

I Want A Little Girl

Sleepy John Estes

Brownsville Blues

Eddy Clearwater

Lester Davenport

When The Blues Hit You

Honkers & Bar Walkers Volume Two

Delayed Exposure

1991, CD, Album, Delmark Records

Mike Smith Quintet

On A Cool Night

1991, CD, Album, Delmark Records,

Johnny Shines & Snooky Pryor

Back To The Country

Stuff You Got To Watch

Anthony Braxton

3 Compositions Of New Jazz

Johnson's Whacks

Free Jazz/Free Improvisation

Kant Sheck Dees Bluze

Art Ensemble Of Chicago*

Free Jazz/Avantgarde

Muhal Richard Abrams

Levels And Degrees Of Light

Dave Specter And Barkin' Bill Smith Featuring Ronnie Earl

Big Joe Williams And J.D. Short*

Stavin' Chain Blues

Sleepy John Estes

Franz Jackson With Jim Beebe's Chicago Jazz

Chicago Blues/Rhythm & Blues

Orange Roughies

Knuckle Sandwich

1989, LP, Nocturnal Records (4),

Alternative Rock

(Marsupial Erruptus)

1989, LP, Album, Picnic Horn Records,

Whack!! Ding!!!

1989, LP, Album, Elementary Music (2),

To Be Or Not To Be, That's What I'm Talkin About

The Magic Sam Legacy

Malachi Thompson

The St. Peter Street Strutters

The St. Peter Street Strutters

Professor's Blues Revue* Featuring Karen Carroll

Professor Strut

Honkers & Bar Walkers Volume One

Name Your Poison

Byram Lake Blues

Last Trio Session

Before Our Time

Figures On A Beach

Standing On Ceremony

1987, Vinyl Allied Pressing,

Pop Rock/Synth-pop

1985, 12", MiniAlbum, EP, SOS Records (10)

Esprit De Corps

Like A Rolling Stone

1984, 12", MiniAlbum, Metro-America,

Figures On A Beach

Figures On A Beach

The Americatz* / Cubes*

Cat Tracks / One After 1

1979, 7", Tremor Records (2)

What Would Petula Do

CD, Album, Not On Label (Maxine Linehan Self-released)

The Albert Nicholas Quartet*, Art Hodes With Earl Murphy & Fred Kohlman*

The New Orleans-Chicago Connection

Sleepy John Estes

The Legend Of Sleepy John Estes

Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio Featuring Pharoah Sanders

Africa N'da Blues

Willie And The Poor Boys

Willie And The Poor Boys

The Fabulous Thunderbirds

Strong Like That

Billy Branch And The Sons Of Blues*

Modern Electric Blues/Harmonica Blues

Magic Slim & The Teardrops

Big Bill Morganfield

Brian Gingrich With David Torn

The White Rim Of Heaven

Roosevelt Sykes

Feel Like Blowing My Horn

Jimmy Thackery & The Drivers

Little Mike And The Tornadoes

Studebaker John And The Hawks*