My exhibition at BAM was a big success. Literally thousands of people visited iduring the month long show. And what a thrill to have "cover guy" Grady Tate at the party, despite some of the worst weather of the New York winter.

The previous week, I photographed the annual Music on the Mountain party at the beautiful Mohonk Mountain Resort in the Catskills. Among the musicians, Dena DeRose, Frank Vignola, Kendra Shank, Frank Kimbrough (my portrait of Frank appeared in the January 10 issue of Time Out NY), Eric Lawrence, Maria Lawrence Hart, Rene Hart and Steve Bernstein. Weekend host Michael Bourne of WBGO sets a really high standard and everyone has lots of fun.

The minute the party for the BAM show was over, I headed out to Portland , Oregon to photograph the jazz festival there, which featured Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Nancy King, Kurt Elling, Bela Fleck, the SF Jazz Collective, Bill Charlap, Anat Cohen, Joshua Redman, the Classical Jazz Quartet, and literally hundreds of other acts--of both local and international note--around the city over a ten day period.

Just determining how best to let you see these up-dates. In the meantime, contact me at fran@frankaufman.com if you'd like a private viewing of any of the photos. (Meanwhile,you can check out next month's DownBeat review of the Cecil Taylor gig to see my photo of Taylor.)

An exhibition of my photos, "The Jazz Photographs of Fran Kaufman" opens at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on January 22, 2008 and runs until February 24.
http://www.bam.org./bamart/events.aspx

Three Jazz CDs this season:
covers for "Cyrus Play Elvis" (Koch) www.kochentertainment.com/cyrus_chestnut.htm

"Dena DeRose Live at the Jazz Standard volume one" (MaxJazz)www.maxjazz.com/derose/card2

and studio shots for
"Third World Love" (Anzic)

Coming soon: my first classical CD cover, for
violinist Jennifer Koh on Cedille Records