Books by Jordi Soley

The product of a musical household -his mother was a semi-professional singer and his father avidly collected big band records - William Claxton gravitated toward photography at an early age. When he was only 12, he regularly took the bus to downtown Los Angeles to attend jazz performances at the Orpheum Theatre, armed with his Brownie box camera. His earliest subjects included Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker. After graduating from the University of California, Claxton remained a habitue of local jazz venues. Jordi Soley is a jazz distributor, producer, and collector. He opened his first jazz record store, Jazz Collectors, in 1980. He started collecting LPs at the age of 13, and his collection now contains over 50.000 albums, making it one of the largest jazz record collections in Europe, as recently noted in the Japanese magazine, Jazz Perspective.