Series containing records concerning business aspects of Moe Koffman's career as a professional musician, including tours, club dates, concert engagements, promotion and publicity, contractual arrangements with engagers, music publishing and royalties, legal matters, relations with his agents and representatives (such as General Arts Management Inc., also known as GAMI), recording, broadcasting, his activities as a booking agent or employer of other musicians (and particularly his role as booking agent for George's Spaghetti House and other jazz rooms affiliated with George's), and his role as orchestra contractor for the Live Entertainment Corporation of Canada (Livent). Among the types of documentation in the series are: correspondence; contracts; agreements; set lists; itineraries, equipment manifests, and other travel documents; posters; concert and festival programmes; concert tickets; sketches, lead sheets, chord charts, parts, and other sheet music; biographical and promotional material; royalty statements; grant notifications; lists of musicians and instrumentation; other lists; orchestra specifications; legal and financial records; reports; questionnaires; schedules; photographs of Koffman and others; résumés of other musicians; notes; press clippings and other print matter.
The series comprises the following sub-series: MUS 315/C1 General Business Files; MUS 315/C2 Performance Contracts Files; MUS 315/C3 Files Concerning Concerts and Other Live Engagements; MUS 315/C4 George's Spaghetti House Files; MUS 315/C5 Livent Files.
The Performance Contracts Files sub-series (MUS 315/C2) contains contracts for several types of engagements, such as live concerts and club dates (predominantly up to 1978), radio and television commercials (and re-uses thereof), broadcasts, phonograph recordings, and some engagements where Koffman was the agent or employer (such as hiring bands for society dates). Starting in 1978, Koffman generally filed contracts for live performances in another sub-series, the Files Concerning Concerts and Other Live Engagements (MUS 315/C3).
In addition to documenting Koffman's own numerous live performance engagements, the Files Concerning Concerts and Other Live Engagements sub-series (MUS 315/C3) also documents Koffman's occasional activities as booking agent for clubs other than George's, as well as his activities as the agent or employer of other musicians and his educational or non-musical live appearances, such as clinics, workshops, music camps, festival adjudication, school visits, charity and promotional events. The files in this sub-series are arranged chronologically according to the date of the event.
