Upright Graphics was created in December 1996 by Jack Frisch, out of an interest and knowledge of Jazz and a goal of providing quality and affordable designs for the music industry.

Within 6 months of its first web site design for Hiram Bullock, the word was out in New York City's busy Jazz scene. His reputation grew for providing affordable and high quality CD packages, web sites and shooting session photography for individual artists and record labels.

By 1998, Jack's work was known in the International Jazz scene, working with prolific Jazz producer Todd Barkan for Venus Records of Japan and Timeless Records in Holland.

Frisch would receive a Grammy Certificate in 2001, in recognition of participation as the Art Director on the 2001 Grammy Award winning Marcus Miller recording "M² in the category Best Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year. Since then Upright Graphics has gone on to design two more CDs for Miller's own 3Deuces label, "The Ozell Tapes" and "Silver Rain".

In September 2005 Upright Graphics was nominated for an Alex Entertainment award for Best Jazz CD package design for Marcus Miller's CD "Silver Rain".

Today, with participation as designer, photographer or both on over 70 CDs, Jack Frisch continues Upright Graphics' mission and along the way working for the genre's finest artists including Marcus Miller, Will Lee, Lalah Hathaway, Christian McBride, Geoffrey Keezer, John Tropea, Dom Minasi, Mark Egan, Mike Merritt, Hiram Bullock and labels such as Telarc, Fantasy, Victor Entertainment, Zoho and Koch.

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Upright Graphics gets its name from, the an original 1946 Kay upright acoustic bass that stood next to Jack's computer table for many years.