1988 Central Park Jazz Fest Poster

The billing runs along the bottom — Rumsey Playfield, July 29 to August 3, 1988 — but the picture is all front line: a saxophonist in a black suit and hat leans into an outsized golden horn while a trumpeter blows over his shoulder, both drawn in flat orange, black and cream. Year-specific festival bills work as graphic time capsules, typography first and nostalgia second, and this brings genuine eighties poster energy to a music room. A black frame and a little wall to itself suit it; designs like this were pasted up outdoors long before they were framed. It anchors the jazz-festival shelf and pairs with the Antibes bill.