"Drummerman" aka Lenny Robinson © Jeffrey Kliman	Gary Bartz Studio Portrait 1993 © Jeffrey Kliman	Growing up in Boston, listening to Symphony Sid on the radio play Diz & Monk & using fake ID’s to get into jazz clubs like Storyville & Connolly’s: what a great introduction to jazz!
DeeDee Bridgewater New Orleans Jazz Festival © Jeffrey Kliman	Art Farmer Arabesque CD Cover (Out Take) © Jeffrey Kliman	When I hit I New York City all the major clubs were up & running: the Five Spot, the Half Note, the Jazz Gallery, Slugs & the original Birdland with its seating for the passionate yet broke jazz fanatic--the Peanut Gallery.
Reggie Workman Rehearsal Room (District Curators) © Jeffrey Kliman	"Tuning Up" Terrance Blanchard & Joe Lovano © Jeffrey Kliman	In 1994, I was invited by Bill Warrell, founder of District Curators / a jazz arts presenter in Washington, D.C. to exhibit my work. My dearest friend Steve Schwartz (WGBH-FM, Boston) had recently introduced me to Herman Leonard. I asked Herman if he would do a two man show with me, he agreed. Scott Schwartz (no relation to Steve), an archivist with the Smithsonian’s Museum of American History, was at the opening. He asked me if I would like to set up a permanent on-going archive for my jazz photographs at the Museum.
Randy Weston Kennedy Center © Jeffrey Kliman	"Trombone-Arkestra" PECO Jazz Fest © Jeffrey Kliman	The reception to the show & the invitation from the Smithsonian proved to me that the intimacy of this world I wanted to photograph was not through the performance but through access to the sound check & the rehearsal: that's where the lasting pictures would be. To loosely quote Herman Leonard: “We are privileged to be allowed into this most intimate of areas, where the creative process can be witnessed”. This is what interests me as a photographer: photographing the process of making the music / this jazz music!!!
"Sister Jazz Joy" Carmen Lundy & the Reed Sisters © Jeffrey Kliman	"Bass Jazz Joy" Nat Reeves (PECO Jazz Fest) © Jeffrey Kliman	Other exhibits include: December 1999 issue of JazzTimes Magazine/Collector’s Gallery. Smithsonian Museum of American History/Archives Collection #628
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