What's up with the cover art?

What should we put on the cover of an album that includes both creative jazz tunes and a requiem? Good question.

We could have gone with a picture of a sunset, suggesting peace and solace, which (of course) is the intent of Lux Aeterna: A Jazz Requiem. But there is more to the album than that. 

The music is arranged to create a 74-minute narrative, of which the requiem is the centerpiece. Beginning with an unlikely setting of a psalm tune from the Reformation, the music signals an integration of jazz and faith, which is our continuing "project" at Presbybop Music. It's jazz with a purpose.

So, to visually suggest that integration, we commissioned Charlie Baber to create a striking image - of John Calvin twirling in a pirouette. A ridiculous image? No, not at all - but one that pushes through the artificial divisions between faith and jazz. 

Sure, it was a risky decision. Just like the music we make.

Charlie is a United Methodist deacon, and very willing to have some fun with drawing Calvin. We like his work very much.