<div><p>There were two big jazz comebacks from long drugs absences in the 1970s: Chet Baker's, and the saxophonist Art Pepper's. Like many musicians of the predominantly white "cool school" of the 1950s, Pepper favoured long, twisting, unemphatic melody lines over big climaxes or raucous blues-bashing. But he wasn't the stereotypical cool-jazzer ...

<div><p>Behind his fame as jazz's doomed youth - falling from James Dean glamour to an accidental early end - it is easy to forget that Chet Baker was an intuitively brilliant trumpet improviser in a 1950s Miles Davis manner, as these tracks from Rome in 1979-80 confirm. Baker had relearned the instrument in the 1970s ...

<div><p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/photography">Photographer</a> William Claxton, whose iconic shots captured Steve McQueen and Chet Baker at their coolest, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 80.</p><p>Claxton was celebrated for his moody black-and-white portraits of ...

<div><p>William Claxton called photography "jazz for the eyes". But jazz photographs have to be music to the ears as well. The best pictures of musicians are drenched in the sound of their subjects. Herman Leonard's pictures make everyone sound the same. Dizzy and Miles, Bud Powell and Tad Dameron: they're all swathed ...