I have been drawn to Leanne Sharpton's hand-lettering and this book cover is an excellent example of how much emotion her work conveys without much help other than a simple illustration. She does some script style lettering, but my favorites are always of this sans serif-like lettering. I suspect she uses a steel brush nib on a pen holder because the strokes are too clean for a brush, but I could be mistaken.
The author of this book is British and this is a companion book to one of his earlier novels about an Irish revolutionary living during the 1920s. In this book, Henry becomes the unofficial manager of Louis Armstrong at some point, hence the trombone. It sounds like a very interesting series that plays around with history, "Forrest Gump" style, but it probably does a better job than that.
The leading and size of the lettering really conveys the emotion of the phrase, when you read it you imagine yourself saying it like you were listening to Louis Armstrong just, jammin'. If the leading were tighter you wouldn't get that sense of savoring a moment. The red "oh," is a nice subtle distinction for emphasis and really helps with how you read the phrase. I really want to get to a point in my lettering skills where I can do emotive type like this.
