After the war he attended the Massachusetts College of Art, and took a job in a print factory while doing contract work as an artist in Boston.
Among those he designed covers for were Chris Connor, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Herbie Mann, Carmen McRae, Charles Mingus, Oscar Pettiford, Eddie Shu, and Kai Winding.
Goldblatt regularly visited jazz clubs and studio recording sessions to photograph, some of which were incorporated into his album covers.
[1] The New York Times wrote that his style "encompassed black-and-white portraits and studio photographs, inspired by film noir, as well as gritty street scenes, often abstractly overlaid with flat colors, evoking a sense of urban night life.
"[1] Later in his career, he concentrated on work as an author, writing or co-writing books on film, music, sports, and true crime.