The year was 1968, and the simple but garish lighting of the Herbie Mann Live at the Whisky A Go Go front cover, glowing with the thick Technicolor aura that was typical of the cinema of that era, was as much responsible for the album's reputation as a "happening scene" as the tepid jazz-funk in the grooves. Photographer Larry Browne was responsible; the club got more out of this photo session than from all the advertising it actually paid for that year.
Larry Browne
Biography by Eugene Chadbourne
The year was 1968, and the simple but garish lighting of the Herbie Mann Live at the Whisky A Go Go front cover, glowing with the thick Technicolor aura that was typical of the cinema of that era, was…
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