Al Caiola – Salute Italia! album art

Photo(s) by Bart Solenthaler on Flickr.


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This album with Italian-style music by guitarist Al Caiola (1920–2016) from New Jersey was released in 1960 by Roulette Records. The cover photograph shows the Trevi Fountain in Rome.

The title typeface is a so-called Tuscan, drawn in Switzerland and baptized with a Spanish name: it’s Alex Stocker’s Juanita, shown in the first volume of the Lettera book series from 1954. The accompanying wide slab serif probably has roots in Germany, where it was named Breite Egyptienne (“wide Egyptian”). It later got a name that suggests a perceived Greek look or origin, Hellenic Wide.

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