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"Important for everyone...from players to club managers." -- Phil Woods THE TOURING MUSICIAN A Small-Business Approach to Booking Your Band on the Road by Hal Galper "Everywhere we traveled, musicians started asking me how I did it. I began to realize that there was a terrible need for musicians to learn how to take control of their destinies. There were a few entry-level books on the subject, but nothing had been written for the intermediate or advanced musician about the 'nuts and bolts' of getting your own gigs." -- Hal Galper And here it is, THE TOURING MUSICIAN, the book musicians need and have been waiting for, written by one of their own who's been there and done that. Every aspect of booking a touring band is covered, including: Point-by-point advice about how to set up a small business Eleven sample worksheets and checklists to help keep you and your information organized Samples of legal documents needed to book bands An outline that takes you through the steps of booking and routing a sample tour, including fivecalendars and five budgets Plus solid advice about how to research your venue contacts, negotiate gigs and fees, manage band finances, coordinate promotional activities, solve transportation and housing issues, and so much more. "The definitive tour manual...This book will help transform road worriers into road warriors.Hal has left no stone unturned when it comes to the business and mechanics of taking a band on tour. Great for musicians, managers, road managers, and agents alike. Keep it on your desk and pack it in your suitcase....It's a complete reference guide to the road." -- Michael Brecker "Exhaustive in its detail [and] inspiring in that it empowers the reader to make headway through the complexities of the music business. Besides that, Hal's humor, anecdotes, and friendly tone make the reading itself pleasurable. This has to be a milestone in how-to books!!" -- David Liebman "Brilliantly and meticulously compiled for surviving as a traveling musician....All of us can learn from the straightforward, sometimes hilarious, clarity of Hal Galper's hindsight experiences. All who travel need to include this book in their personal libraries -- even if they have management." -- Rufus Reid About the Author With more than 68 recordings to his credit, 17 as a leader in his own right, pianist, composer, publisher, educator, author, and touring artist, Hal Galper is best known for his work with such legends of jazz as Chet Baker, Cannonball Adderley, Roy Eldridge, Phil Woods, and Art Blakey. His recordings as a leader with Mike and Randy Brecker are considered among the best.Graduating from the Berklee College of Music, in 1959, at the height of the bebop era, Hal Galper steadily built his reputation in the changing environment of jazz. He anchored such bands as the Slide Hampton Quartet, the Lee Konitz Duo, the Stan Getz Quartet, and many others. His biography is listed in the National Encyclopedia of Jazz and he has recorded and published 75 original compositions. Galper is also known internationally as an educator. His theoretical and practical articles have appearedin Downbeat magazine and he is a member of the faculty of the Mannes College of Music at the New School University. He has won a Grammy nomination and a Grammy for his recordings with the award-winning Phil Woods Quartet and Quintet, was awarded a Distinguished Alumni Award from Berklee, and has been a recipient of special assistance grants from the National Endowment of the Arts and the New School of New York. He lives in Cochecton, New York 256 pages / 6 x 9 / 0-8230-8429-9 / $16.95 paper / April Publication / Published by BILLBOARD BOOKS Fax review copy requests to 212.536.5359 For more information, contact: LEE WIGGINS: 212.536.5111 FOR INTERVIEWS CONTACT HAL GALPER AT: halgalper or visit his web site at www.upbeat.com/galper OR CHECK OUT THE BOOK'S TABLE OF CONTENTS: http://www.upbeat.com/galper/biz_talk/tableofcontents.htm TOP