Earl Newman wasn’t much of a jazz fan back in 1963 when he was hired to produce a poster promoting the Monterey Jazz Festival; the blues was more his style. He wasn’t going to let that stop him, though. The Massachusetts-to-California transplant went to work, applying his hand-silkscreen technique to a black-and-white piece based on a sketch he’d made of trumpeter Joe Gordon blowing.
Jimmy Lyons, the festival’s
