Breaching the gap with design intermediality

Whilst reading The Colouring of Jazz by Carissa Kowalski Dougherty I came across a jazz artist who also was an operating designer for jazz records at the same time; breaching the gap with design intermediality.

An artist by the name of Gil Mellé created jazz for the Blue Note label throught the 50's but unlike most Jazz artists, he helped with the 'intermediality' of jazz records by being a designer.
Mellé arguably broke the link between musician & designers or media & sleeve, by being a designer.
He worked on records for other artists and also worked on his own record sleeves, though I cannot find any hard evidence that he did.

One record that I can find, of the 50's bop era, does in fact have him listed as a designer in many instances; this record is also a strong favourite of mine—Kenny Dorham - Afro-Cuban.
http://www.discogs.com/Kenny-Dorham-Afro-Cuban/release/3189752

Though the sleeve above is not the sleeve I'm used to, it is in fact almost the best excuse I can find to display a visual example of Intermediality in record sleeve design.