JAZZ PIANISTS.

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Group of five original photographic portraits of Paul Bley, Bill Evans, Tommy Flanagan, Wynton Kelly, and John Lewis. Attractive collection of portraits of five jazz greats, those of Paul Bley and John Lewis are vintage prints from the studio of Burt Goldblatt, with wet stamps on verso. Goldblatt's New York Times obituary describes him as "a prolific designer of moody jazz LP album covers... In the early 1950s, after the introduction of the LP, the most progressive American cover designs were created for jazz albums, and Mr. Goldblatt was among the pioneers in establishing the cool-jazz style. It encompassed black-and-white portraits and studio photographs, inspired by film noir, as well as gritty street scenes, often abstractly overlaid with flat colours, evoking a sense of urban night life".The study of Paul Bley shows him performing at the Newport Jazz Festival, where Goldblatt was very much the house photographer, publishing an illustrated history of the festival in 1977. Bley, in the avant-garde of developments in the music, "has produced vivid, vital jazz couched in an advanced and challenging idiom" (Cook & Morton). That of John Lewis - leader of the MJQ, one of the most successful small groups in jazz - is an intimate close-up shot of him at the keyboard.Bill Evans is shown standing at the keyboard working through some changes with another musician, perhaps drummer Kenny Clarke; the figure at Evans's elbow may be fellow-pianist Hank Jones. Similarly, Tommy Flanagan, s

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