Edition of 100 signed copies. William Claxton is indelibly associated with the West Coast Jazz scene. In this, his first English-language monograph, his subjects include Chet Baker, John Coltrane, Max Roach, Billie Holiday, Thelonius Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, and Duke Ellington.

In his introduction, Terry Southern writes: 'The great French music critic André Hodeir has described jazz as a "visual music" – "played with the body, the entire body, by a musician who is so totally involved in what he is doing that one should not only hear his performance, one should also see it, in order to better understand what he is trying to express." Being extremely knowledgeable about jazz, as well as a personal friend of many of the musicians he photographs, William Claxton ("Clax") is keenly attuned to the relationship between the musician and his music, and between the musicians themselves.'

First edition, number 82 of 100 signed and slipcased copies; 4to (305 x 228 mm, 12 x 9 in); black-and-white photographs printed in sheet-fed gravure, texts by Leonard Feathers and Terry Southern; blue endpapers, dark blue cloth-covered boards, titles to upper and spine in black, printed dust-jacket, black, publisher's matching slipcase, fine; [124]pp.