Jazz OOP with a grin on his

with a grin on his face

drawing what is hidden to the surface

Whiffs of Southern Gothic are not new to Mr

her photographs serve as an able guide to truths that are better sensed than seen

"Depictions of the West as a vast garden of romantic innocence and male possibility abound

Jazz OOP with a grin on hisEssay by Leonard Feather William Claxton's legendary JAZZ LIFE, published in Germany 1962, is long out of print. Twenty five years later, William Claxton re edited his photographs of the jazz greats during the 1950's. Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and all the rest are intimately recorded by this photographer. Included are Claxton's notes on each performer, remembering their friendships, performances and sometimes