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LA SCOMPARSA DI CLAXTON, UN FOTOGRAFO DEL JAZZ

William Claxton, a photographer whose portfolio included many of the world’s most famous people—among them numerous greats of jazz—died of congestive heart failure on Oct. 12 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Claxton was 80.

Claxton’s iconic portraits of trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker helped boost the musician’s popularity in the 1950s, and Claxton’s other subjects ran the gamut from Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan to Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand and Steve McQueen. Jazz artists who came before Claxton’s camera included Thelonious Monk, Mel Tormé, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Stan Getz.

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