Jay Maisel

[3] Maisel was born on January 18, 1931, in Brooklyn, New York City,[4] and attended Abraham Lincoln High School where he studied under Leon Friend.

[5][6] He studied painting and graphic design at Manhattan's Cooper Union and at Yale University, and became a photographer in 1954.

In 2009, Andy Baio commissioned an image based on the original Kind of Blue album cover for the cover of a chiptune tribute album titled Kind of Bloop.

[7][8] For almost 50 years, Maisel lived with his family in the historic Germania Bank Building on the Bowery in lower Manhattan.

Maisel's new residence, a nearly 27-foot-wide townhouse in a Brooklyn historic district, is three stories tall with a full, finished basement; it has six bedrooms, six full baths and two half-baths and an elevator, over about 10,000 square feet of space.