Jazz silas-finch Their togetherness is taken for

Their togetherness is taken for granted so openly that the viewer feels at each moment like one of them

so I choose to portray them through a more theatrically absurd approach

80 four-color plates

54 gravure plates

Essay by Quentin Bajac

Jazz silas-finch Their togetherness is taken forEssay 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