Maurice Johnson

Maurice Johnson
Musician/Author/Motivationalist

Maurice Johnson / Business Experience

As former After Five Jazz Band leader and Warlock Records recording artist, Maurice has had a major role in developing and sustaining jazz guitar in its coolest form as well as introducing new and exciting markets for musicians and enthusiasts for nearly twenty years.
During a ten year period Maurice Johnson has been published by Mel Bay Publications, Mix Books and Artist Pro Press, authoring four nationally published music career book titles for the performing and aspiring musician.
In 1992 he co-founded D’Leco Acoustic Instruments, Inc., builders of fine hand-crafted arch top guitars. As DLeco’s Marketing Director Maurice successfully negotiated licensing agreements with both Gibson Guitar Company and Samick Musical Instruments, launching two exclusive lines of Charlie Christian guitar models into mass production.
At D’Leco, Maurice directed business and became the exclusive representative of the Charlie Christian Guitar development and marketing campaign. Becoming a well-known and familiar face at major music industry trade shows, he managed to position D’Leco among the famous Blue Guitar Collection and on into the Smithsonian Institute and further still, into Chronicle Publishing’s Blue Guitars book.
Prior to developing mauricejohnson.com, in 2000, Maurice Johnson created and introduced Gigorama Software products to assist bands and musicians with a wide range of business tasks specific to their own industry, including gig tracking; financial summaries; automated contracts; etc. Gigorama has become an increasingly popular software of choice among bands and musicians.

Maurice Johnson book titles include

1. Build and Manage Your Music Career

2. The New! Working Musician’s One Year Organizer

3. Gigorama, The Complete Management Software for Performing Musicians

4. The Musician’s Tour Planner