Jazz-Funk covers

I'm not sure but for this project I'm struggling to keep on track, not work wise just I'm getting distracted with other designs and styles and I'm not concentrating on what the band wants, which I really need to get my head round as this is what the graphic designers job is... to do what the client says. So i keep revisiting jazz-funk album covers, typography etc to drum it into my head. I found a usual blog showcasing soul, funk and jazz album covers which is perfect, it has a large collection of albums so I have collated a few. To the left is Ernie Hines album which reminded me of the section in the retro cookbook this magnified style seems to be popping up a lot now i'm researching a bit deeper into the style, so I think I might play around with that in a bit and see if it works with my design. Image 2 uses the brilliant Avant Garde which I believe I have mentioned a good few times in this blog but I'm beginning to love it the more I look at it. I think the reason why is obviously I wasn't around in the era Avant Garde was huge and I have only seen it in modern publications such as Corinne Bailey Rae's album I researched earlier so I see it as a current trend rather than old either way it works! The album cover above seems to use the same thin stroked type, very rounded however I'm not sure if it's Avant Garde or just an adaptation of this it's simplistic yet powerful and still portrays that current contemporary look. Image 3 is a Spanky Wilson album I really only added this because of the small typography used for the artists name, the way it's tightly kerned and the wording is designed to fit comfortably together slotting in negative space, fitting like a puzzle? again very seventies/eighties so will need to consider this in my design. Similar to this is 'The Ebony's' album cover again added for the same reason as before I liked the typography used rather than the whole design, they have used a similar approach by tightly kerning the letters and fitting the letters carefully together so they all 'fit' I also like the use of joining letters together to emphasise the flow and balance out the logo/name.