Online search of art found a contractor to design a CD cover for a Los Angeles jazz musician

Rumi flute, L.A. Jazz flutist, was looking for a color art to adorn his new CD cover, titled "Rumi Zabumba & Rumba." with a funny title like this, would you want some festive, colorful art! Rumi found Lindy Gaskill by doing a search online and was immediately taken by her whimsical, colorful style of painting.

The debut solo album, "Rumi Zabumba & Rumba" includes 10 dynamic Afro-Latin jazz arrangements of Rumi flute original compositions along with fresh takes on classic tunes from around the world.

Recorded with an all-star band including Venezuelan piano legend Otmaro Ruiz and bassist Hussain Jiffry of Sergio Mendes group of Rumi arrangements include Afro-Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, Afro-Argentina and Afro-Peruvian rhythms.

Rumi knew she wanted original artwork to commemorate this project once and it seemed difficult for the right artist. Rumi, said, "I searched online using keywords like" tropical painting "and" colorful entertainer. "When Rumi saw Lindy Gaskill work she immediately felt a connection between images of Andrew and his music.

Lindy Gaskill, fine artist and graphic designer, was able not only to instruct painting for jacket cover but designed CD Pack as well.

"Linda has many pictures already, that would have worked great as a cover but I was so excited to be able to get her on the Commission for an original piece," said Rumi. "She is extremely responsive and intuitive, gives me exactly what I was looking for and much more. When she first showed him I liked the picture immediately! It was also great that she was able to design a complete CD jacket works so beautifully with the artwork. I can not be happy. "

The album is being released June 15, 2013 from Revolg Records as a digital download and physical CD with full-color package, designed by Lindy. It can be heard at rumiflute.bandcamp.com

Lindy Gaskill is Prescott, Arizona fine artist and graphic designer. She creates colorful, acrylic paintings, prints and greeting cards for the uplifting of the spirit. To find out more, visit http://www.artbylindy.com.

Rumi was born in Kyoto, Japan. She is a singer, songwriter and performer in jazz and other music on flute. She holds a master's degree in music in Afro-Latin music performance from Los Angeles California State. Visit my site at http://www.rumiflute.com to learn more about her new CD and performance schedule.

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Online Sales auctions some of the most vintage and rare rock and roll memorabilia ever found.

Twin Cities auction house ONLINE SALES announces their upcoming auction of vintage rock memorabilia, capped off by a rare, signed Beatles document that’s expected to bid well into the thousands!  Think "American Pickers," "Rock and Roll," and add a dash of "dreams really do come true" and you'll be set for this auction. Recently added, is a collection of vintage rock posters that may have been missed -- if not for a quick encounter between auction house owner Paul "Pash" Pashibin, and a delivery woman.

"I had been on an all-day excursion," Pash relates. "I was browsing through my last stop, in the basement of an antique shop, with a handful of old One-sheets. These are old movie posters that are machine folded, and stamped on the back with a number. The number is commonly mistaken by novice collectors as a limited edition, numbered poster. The poster numbering scheme actually works like this:  The first two numbers are the year that the movie came out, and the second set of numbers is the number of movies published by that studio that year. So a poster with 69/112 would be the 112th movie published by that studio, in the year 1969.

I had a few of these older One-sheets in my arms. I was unhappy with my findings that day, and I was crouched down looking through the last boxes, getting ready to leave. Just then a delivery woman came into this back room. She had a dolly loaded with boxes of books. She needed to get past me so she could drop the books in their receiving area. I really had no room, so I contorted my body so she could get past."

And that's when my eyes lit up. By moving to let the delivery go by, there were a set of tubes sticking out of an older book shelf - poster tubes, deeply tucked away.  From Family Dog, to Easy Rider, to Jefferson Airplane and Zappa, I uncovered an amazing treasure. Pash and ONLINE SALES bring MANY of these uncovered posters to auction this January 26th. The majority are in mint condition, as perfect as the day they were silkscreened.

Included in the auction are many Pandora Productions hippy / psychedelic posters from the 1960's, including PIPEDREAM and LOVE IS A FLOWER.  These posters defined the age of Aquarius and the summer of love, and are in amazing condition for being 46 years old. Many other rare and vintage posters and ephemera including children's book plates, movie posters for musicals, original 1977 Star Wars memorabilia, and M.C. Escher prints will go on the block.  The auction is topped of by two very rare and unique items.  The first is an actual brick from the Cavern Club, where the Beatles first performed in Liverpool.  Finally, all four Beatles signed the back cover of a 1964 Beatle Bulletin - and this rare opportunity to own rock and roll history is available to the top bidder.

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