JAZZ IMAGES BY WILLIAM CLAXTONWilliam Claxton. He was the product of a musical household his mother was a semi professional singer and his father avidly collected big band records, William Claxton rapidly became an habitu of local jazz venues. 1952, while shooting Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker at the Haig Club, he met Richard Bock, founder of Pacific Jazz, who quickly hired him as art director and house photographer, establishing the visual identity of the West Coast Jazz