Meet Gail Boyd

Gail Boyd is President of Gail W. Boyd, P.C., an entertainment law firm, and Gail Boyd Artist Management, a wholly owned company of the law firm.  She is a graduate of De Paul University and De Paul University School of Law.  She was a founding partner in Boyd, Staton and Cave, the first African American female law firm in New York.

Gail Boyd has been involved in entertainment law since 1976.  She has been involved specifically in music with a specialty in jazz since 1979.

She is the former Vice Chair of the Entertainment, Sports, and Art Law Committee of the National Bar Association.  She also chaired the Entertainment, Sports, Art Law Committee of the Metropolitan Black Bar Association and served as a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Entertainment Law.   She is an attorney and board member of the International Women in Jazz.  She served as a member of the Jazz Jam Committee of the National Association of Recording, Arts & Sciences.  She serves on the Board of Trustees of the Tribeca Performing Arts Center and WBGO FM Radio in New York.

In 1998, Gail had the privilege of acting as production coordinator for Quincy Jones producing a concert which took place in Central Park.  She has also served as production coordinator for more than twelve CDs of various jazz artists.  Recently, she co-produced a gospel album for the choir of Emmanuel Baptist Church.

As a lawyer, Gail Boyd has represented jazz artists such as Betty Carter, Tommy Flanagan, Kenny Barron, Record Executive Steve Backer, and Randy Weston.  Artists currently represented by Gail Boyd Artist Management are:

John Clayton, The Clayton Brothers Quintet, Don Braden, The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Gerald Clayton, Sachal Vasandani, Mark Rapp, Moncef Genoud