Jazz OOP Michael Crouser visited the bullrings

Michael Crouser visited the bullrings of Spain

with a grin on his face

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

which do not compromise the artist's individual vision for the sake of popular acceptance

100 four-color plates

Jazz OOP Michael Crouser visited the bullringsEssay 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