Hi Folks, Welcome Mat is now a site map to my Web Site. Please make yourself at home and browse around. I've included on this page, a description of each page and its contents. You can navigate from here to any of the pages by clicking on a title.
Any comments, suggestions,
criticisms or just plain getting in touch to say hello, are
welcome.
A complete history of my
recording career to date. I've been lucky to have played with so
many great musicians.
Check this page for my own latest recordings and recordings with others. You’ll find covers, personnel and tune lists and album reviews. Wherever possible I’ve included sound clips and direct links to buy them on-line. My educational recordings for Jamey Aebersold are also listed, with covers, tune lists and on-line links.
By Hal Galper:
Lets Call This That, Fugue State, Maybeck Duets, Portrait, Maybeck Hall, Solo, Invitation To A Concert, Redux 78, Tippin', Just Us, The Guerilla Band, Sweet Beat Blues Live at Vartan's, Live at Port Townsend '91, Ivory Forest, Hal Galper at the Cafe des Copains, Dreamsville, Reach Out, Children of the Night, Rebop, Wild Bird,
With Phil Woods: Evolution Bob Stew Bouquet Graditude Flash Live From New York The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn All Bird's Children Heaven Integrity Into The Woods At The Vanguard With Cannonball Adderley: Inside Straight, Pyramid, With John Scofield: Rough House, With Lee Konitz: Windows, With Chet Baker: Baby Breeze, Live At Fat Tuesday's With Sam Rivers: A New Conception, With Tom Harrell: Open Air , With Randy Brecker: Score
Jamey Aebersold Play-A-Long Records: Volume 25 ALL-TIME STANDARDS, Volume 32 BALLADS, Volume 40 'ROUND MIDNIGHT, Volume 55 YESTERDAYS - JEROME KERN'S JAZZ CLASSICS, Volume 34 JAM SESSION, Volume 39 SWING, SWING SWING, Volume 58 UNFORGETTABLE, Volume 62 WES MONTGOMERY JAZZ STANDARDS, Volume 66 BILLY STRAYHORN (Lush Life), Volume 21 GETTIN' IT TOGETHER
Published by Gerard &
Sarzin: The
Straight Ahead Jazz
Fakebook
Visit here to view my published articles. They cover sundry subjects from music instruction, with examples, to music business critiques and comments and more, with PDF versions.
Understanding Forward Motion, Practice & Performance Goals for the Jazz Improvisor , The Oral Tradition, How To Learn a Tune, Forward Motion Scale Fingerings for the jazz pianist. The Social Contract, Stagefright and Relaxation, The Challenge From The Past (Revised) Jazz In Academia, Radical vs Incremental, Comping, Playing in Half-Time, Developing Style, Part 1, Developing Style, Part 2, Pipe Dreams: Part 1, The Jazz Masters Guild, Pipe Dreams: Part 2, The Audience I.D. Program Pipe Dreams:Part 3, Team Targeting My Time With Cannonball
You’ll find a collection of my original compositions here. This page changes a lot. I’ve been redoing many of them with a new music writing program and PDF versions so they’re more readable and printable. Please help yourself to any of them. I hope you enjoy playing them.
Snakin
The Grass,
Inner
Journey,
Second
Son,
Phases,
This
is The Thing,
Mister
B.,
Margerine,
Waiting
For Chet,
This
One's For You
, Transcribed
excerpt from Hal's solo on "All The Things You
Aren't",Click on
galpsolo.pdf
for the original PDF version of the above transcription with
transposed parts. If I Didn't
Care,
Gotham
Serenade, Tune
of the Unkown
Samba,
Just
Us
The Rants & Raves page is another active page and is the most fun for me. It's a collection of topics that interest me, humor, events, stories, recomendations and random thoughts on things various. I also get a chance to bitch about whatever subject I happen to fancy at the moment.
Eric Boehlert's July 6, 2000 Article on the state of the record business on the solon.com web site,
Letter to the editor published in the June, 2000 issue of the web site jazzman.com,
R.I.P, Access, Swami Galper See’s All, The Crisis in Jazz, More Crises, Jazz Pedagogy, Letters: In the blue corner, A Modest Offer, Honoring Duke, About Cannonball, Bob Moses’s Letter To The Boston Pheonix, Great Quotes & More!
These pages are a recent addition to the site and include many of the interviews I’ve done over the years. Stories and comments about some of my bands, the musicians I’ve played with as a sideman, and comments on jazz education and the music business that you might find interesting.
Ahmad Jamal Interview with Paul MacArther, LeJazz Webzine Interview With Alain Le Roux, Letter From Evans Interview with David Udolph, "Piano" Newsletter Interview with Steve O'Keefe, Jazz Now Magazine with Robert Tate and Nina Johnson, The Grand Rapids Press with Lazaro Vaga, The JazzTimes with David Zych, 1978 Down Beat interview by Arnold Jay Smith, November 1982 Down Beat interview with Jeff Levenson, December 17 2000 interview with Mark Johnson for partialobserver.com, Interview for the magazine Chet's Choice Interview for JazzImprov Magazine Pete Sims (LaRoca) Interview for Tomajazz.com
I manage to get one of these email newsletters out about every three months. The Newsletter itself is on my site and I just send out the URL link so you don’t have to wait for eons for a large email to download. If you want to add your name to my mailing list get in touch with me through any of my email links spread throughout the site or my In Touch page.
I’ve been booking, touring and recording my own bands since 1990 and in the process have come across much valuable information about the music business. The Biz Talk pages offer it to my fellow musicians who are trying to gain some modicum of control over their musical destinies. Currently, my new book “The Touring Musician” is being featured. Find out more about it, view it’s Table of Contents, what they’re saying about it and where to buy it on-line. You’ll also find a useful little touring information management “Worksheet” that you can copy for your own personal use.
Biz Tips Section, Check here for business tips that might come in handy.
Chapter 9: Managing Tour Routing and Budgets from "The Touring Musician",
Do You Need The Touring Musician??????
Click
here to buy The Touring Musician today at
amazon.com!
Here you’ll find information about when and where I’m playing, teaching or giving music business semenars. Enter your email address in the Net Minder Box for automatic updates.
2001-2002
Itinerary
2000-2001
Itinerary,
1999
Itinerary,
1998
Itinerary,
1997
Itinerary,
1996
Itinerary
This is an international
list of all the places my various trios, quartets and quintets
have played since I started booking myself in 1990. I’ve had
the good fortune to have worked for a lot of very nice people
during this period. The list gets bigger every year and most of
them have asked us back.
Check out the Press Kit pages for my Bio (both long and short), performance reviews, educational credits, awards, educational testimonials and more.
Hal's
Biography
(Long),
Hal's
Biography
(Short),
Performance
Reviews,
Education
Reviews,
Faculty,
Awards,
Institutional
Support
Most of these Bookmarks are
music business oriented. Lots of good information for the
traveling musician and I keep adding new ones as I find them.
This is another new addition to my site. It’s under construction now but expect it to include an eclectic mix of things like personal, musicians, funny stuff as well as black & white publicity photos for downloading.
Promotional
Photos,
Personal
Photos,
My
Scrapbook
Want to make some comments,
get on my email newsletter list or just say hello? Use this page.
I’ll always get back to you as soon as I can.
I hope you find your visit to my web site interesting,
entertaining and informative. Enjoy!!!