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‘Saxophone Colossus’: Sonny Rollins in images and words

One of the best marriages in pop culture has been between jazz and photography. The pictures of ace cameramen like William Claxton have helped to preserve the performance style of musicians who are...

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‘All-American’: the wide-ranging eye of Bruce Weber

A magazine in the form of a book, or a book with the spirit of a magazine? It’s hard to define what the photographer and filmmaker Bruce Weber has been doing since 2001 in the series of volumes he...

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‘The Missing Years’: helping a down-and-out Chet Baker

Jazz drummer Artt Frank delivers a moving and harrowing account of his friendship with a legendary trumpet player and singer in “Chet Baker: The Missing Years” (BooksEndependent). Baker’s career was...

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