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The Real Book
- 7357 6y agoWhat is the Real Book? (a jazz shibboleth) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD0e5e6wI_A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD0e5e6wI_A)
- wazoox 6y agoWhy did you change the title?
- MauranKilom 6y agoIt's possible that the word filter for titles that HN uses removed the "real". But yeah, whatever the cause, the result is bad.
- noneeeed 6y agoEspecially as 99 Percent Ivisible have a book out, which is what I thought this was going to be about.
- dang 6y agoHN's debaiting software did. We changed it back. Submitters: if HN's software edits a title badly, you can override that by clicking 'edit'. Just please don't restore clickbait.
- pthreads 6y agoWhen I was learning to play the saxophone my instructor had an old copy of the Real Book. The transcriptions of songs by some of the jazz legends would blow my mind. I thought the people being able to transcribe those were geniuses (still do). They had no sophisticated software to help them. It was all done manually by listening to countless hours of recordings over and over again. All those chord changes, harmonies, the extra fast tempo... That also reminds me of Phil Schapp. He used to run (probably still does) a radio program at Columbia University. Most astonishing encyclopedic knowledge of jazz!! Have a listen sometime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Schaap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Schaap Edit: Added Wikipedia link.
- zimpenfish 6y ago> They had no sophisticated software to help them. Which is a shame because they sometimes make bad transcriptions... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFWCbGzxofU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFWCbGzxofU is a deep dive by Adam Neely into "Girl From Ipanema" covering how "The Real Book" neutered the blues countermelody because ... someone just didn't write it down in the 70s and everyone learns it from TRB now.
- lc9er 6y agoGuitar tab sites always had the same problem with bad transcriptions. Fortunately, there’s a whole generation of musicians that do fairly accurate “how to play” series on YouTube.
- alexilliamson 6y agoIMO Ultimate guitar has really great tabs for most reasonably popular songs. The ratings don't seem to be gamed as much as other sites as well. It's almost good enough to forgive all the shady UX patterns all over the site.
- achn 6y agoThe current version of this website is so shaddy and specifically geared to destroy the original concept of tabs being easy to copy and edit. This website is now the antithesis of where it started. It is a perfect example of everything that is wrong with the modern web.
- Naracion 6y agoHave the two of you given Songsterr a try? I've used it a couple times in its nascent years, and it seemed promising. But boy I used it again recently and it's improved a _lot_ and their library of songs has also grown substantially! I really love Songsterr now and check there before Ultimate Guitar if I need anything.
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- cousin_it 6y agoSomeone should make an online "real book" for electronic music production, with a bunch of popular beats and instructions for how to reproduce them in a DAW. Does such a thing exist?
- hrnnnnnn 6y agoNot quite what you're asking for, but it's really good. https://makingmusic.ableton.com/ https://makingmusic.ableton.com/
- JoeyJoJoJr 6y agoYes! I am surprised there isn’t a definitive source for common sequencer beats and grooves.
- matthewh806 6y agoThere are some older books like: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Machine-Patterns-Leonard-Publishing-Corporation/dp/0881888877/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Machine-Patterns-Leonard-Publishing... which is just tabulating lots of common rhythm patterns from a wide number of genres. and some more modern ones like: https://op-forums.com/t/pocket-operations-a-portable-book-of-drum-machine-patterns/14650 https://op-forums.com/t/pocket-operations-a-portable-book-of... Neither of these are online though and would be well suited to it I agree. A quick search also came up with: http://808.pixll.de/ http://808.pixll.de/ which has drum patterns uploaded by users for popular songs
- JoeyJoJoJr 6y agoI already have the Pocket Operations book - it’s great. Thanks for those other links.
- emmanueloga_ 6y agonot a definitive resource but recently learn about the pretty cool https://hiphoptranscriptions.com/ https://hiphoptranscriptions.com/
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- mberning 6y agoIf you like music nerd stuff you should check out Rick Beato on YT.
- matthewh806 6y agoAlso if you like having a person with an inflated ego stuff his awful opinions down your throat you should check out Rick Beato on YT
- miobrien 6y agoExamples of his awful opinions and ego? I’ve watched him occasionally over the years but haven’t noticed this.
- Galanwe 6y agoI share the same feeling as parent post. The video where they sit down listening to various string gauges and nod at the obvious tone change comes to my mind. I'm 99% sure they would not see any difference in a blind test. He also has plenty of videos about his past, his achievements, very opinionated tastes about what is good, etc. I find it quite annoying and over self centered.
- justsignedupnow 6y agoAgreed on the blind test prediction. However, electric guitarists are placebo addicts and if 4 nice men spent a 20 minute internet video agreeing on something one of the bearded guys from ZZ Top maybe once said, some guitarists will play along with a little bit more ease in their hearts.
- matthewh806 6y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFaRIW-wZlw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFaRIW-wZlw He doesn't really understand electronic music in my opinion. I find these sweeping statements about how "x ruined y" to be extremely lazy. Especially when it comes to comments about computers and music from these traditionally rock-ist people
- rocketpastsix 6y agoI have a stack of them in my office. The Real Book, the Real Christmas Book, the Real Rock Book and more. They are awesome if you can sight read and great as a learning tool.
- kinleyd 6y agoThis was a great read!
- ehnto 6y agoAs much as it is criticized for being used to gatekeep in the jazz scene so to speak, it is nice to have somewhat of a reference for competency. Music is so subjective that when you are teaching yourself it can be hard to know if you are heading in the right direction. Music is all about utilizing shared language, and I feel The Real Book was just a way to add some depth to the expected knowledge base in a certain scene. Kinda like software patterns.
- birgitt 6y agoI think we had a few copies of this in my high school's jazz band (the director of the movie Whiplash was from the same band). I played the flute so had inch thick folders of handwritten music transposed from the tenor sax or trumpet parts.
- krigs 6y agowhat is the real book?
- krallja 6y agoTry reading the very first paragraph: « It has a peach-colored cover, a chunky, 1970s-style logo, and a black plastic binding. It’s delightfully homemade-looking—like it was printed by a bunch of teenagers at a Kinkos. And inside is the sheet music for hundreds of common jazz tunes—also known as jazz “standards”—all meticulously notated by hand. »
- caseyross 6y agoI can't help thinking that this story is a fantastic example of the free market at work. Two college kids use their insight to spot a market need that the "big guys" missed, and create a wonderful, useful product that becomes a smash hit. Of course, when I say "the free market", I'm talking about the one where good ideas can be shared and copied freely --- not the one populated by sheet music landlords, whose laws were flouted every step of the way for great public benefit.
- Joker_vD 6y ago"But how is that a market if things are shared and copied freely? No, there must be property rights and strict enforcements and protection of those rights, and ideally the more property one has, the more their rights are protected: so that small and ineffective market participants can be forced out easier, that'd allow for arriving at economies of scale quicker which will improve things for everyone, yes, even for those whose property was reassigned to better owners".
- DennisP 6y agoIn fact, a lot of this music wouldn't exist if not for people freely sharing and copying ideas. The article mentions "authorship disputes that go back to the early days of jazz. Many jazz songs arise out of collective tinkering and improvising in jam sessions. It’s sometimes quite hard to say who exactly wrote a given song."
- blueboo 6y agoThe Real Book is a great and weird learning tool. It's a rite of passage in jazz education to realise that your favorite tune isn't actually how it was written in the Real Book. Miles Davis didn't get it wrong -- the Real Book did! And just like that, you have your first bit of secret jazz knowledge... There are also some dated, now-seemingly-bizarre choices that were included. These quickly become in-jokes among folks boning up on classic tunes. "Should we do Speak No Evil, Ceora, or...General Mojo's Well-laid Plan?" My favorite weirdness is the creative harmonisation of late 60s free jazz. The chords offered for "Orbits" are quite cool but very much the transcriber's imagination. Yes, it's inadequate and flawed if it's the only resource offered. But it's no gatekeeper, it's a gate-opener. I prefer to see it as an invitation to dig deeper. Someone practicing "Billy's Bounce" might gaze in disbelief at "Some Skunk Funk". What's going on with the mixed meter in this Charles Mingus guy's tunes? And thus it facilitates our going out to discover more styles, more players, more music.
- biggieshellz 6y agoTo be fair, General Mojo's Well-Laid Plan is from "Duster" by Gary Burton's band with Larry Coryell, which is considered to be one of the first fusion records and was really influential at the time.
- tjr 6y agoGary Burton was also a Berklee local, as were composers of many of the other seemingly obscure selections. Those tunes probably were in fact "standards" in that time and place, and through The Real Book, likely achieved more prominence than they would have otherwise. I find it curious though that General Mojo didn't make it in to the Hal Leonard "6th Edition". I find it hard to believe that they couldn't secure the rights; did they just deem it too obscure? For trying to recreate the old book, seems like an unfortunate loss. Those tunes gave the book part of its character.
- skybrian 6y agoI never saw the original Real Book. I bought the New Real Book from Shel Music and it seems pretty good? (I mostly don't play jazz and bought it out of curiosity.) For beginners I recommend starting with The Real Easy Book which has some simpler tunes, mostly blues-based.
- anotheryou 6y agoI always loved the handwriting :) So consistent, so charming.
- hoytech 6y agoFascinating! It's sort of similar to "bootlegged" guitar tabs on alt.guitar.tab newsgroup and OLGA. There was lots of legal action by publishers and a lot of the content is now lost, or at least not easily accessible online anymore. ...except for an archive of the classical tabs, selflessly maintained by one guy: https://www.classtab.org/index_old.htm https://www.classtab.org/index_old.htm Don't tell anyone!
- ed25519FUUU 6y agoI’m feeling uneasy because I know there’s a whole generation of “one-person” shops which run these important websites. I hope they have a transition plan in place for the inevitable.
- anchpop 6y agoYeah. I got nervous so I downloaded the site and put a mirror up on IPFS: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmWG7VPMwC6T1PCp5G77AjrLCJMrmSQshYovf3ieRHWkys https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmWG7VPMwC6T1PCp5G77AjrLCJMrmSQshYovf3i... It's not perfect, because if he updates his site my mirror won't necessarily be updated, but hopefully it's better than nothing. I'm pinning that on two seperate computers so it should have some resiliency, but if someone else wants to pin it too that'll do a lot for keeping it up.
- ed25519FUUU 6y agoThank you for doing the good work.
- lupire 6y agoArchive.org to the rescue
- sixstringtheory 6y ago> 2900 classical guitar tabs in plain text format > Use a maximum of 80 characters a line so that the tab prints out ok > An 9MB downloadable zip file is available of the whole site The fact that I had an upwelling of joy reading those lines on a nice, plain webpage just goes to show how far we go to lock down and bloat up so many things these days. Thanks for linking! The scrolling versions of the tabs are neat as well. > do NOT use the 'Tab' character for spacing I had no idea the "tabs vs spaces" debate raged in other corners of the universe...
- bonthron 6y agoWhen I was a teenager, my music teacher always had a copy of the Real Book around. I went to a local music store and was looking through their music books when one of the employees asked, 'is there something I can help you find?' When I said the Real Book, he said, 'oh, we don't keep that out here'... he disappeared for a minute and came back with a copy from the back room. At the time, I felt like I had been admitted into a secret club.
- mtalantikite 6y agoI have a very clear memory of taking the subway to a random music shop in Boston near Berklee as a teenager that an older musician friend had told me about that had Real Books in the back. Went up to the counter and when I asked for it the person working there got real quiet, asking me what key I needed it in, and then ducked into the back to grab it. I think it was something like $45, which was a lot for 15 year old me in the 90s at the time. It definitely felt like a secret club! I loaned it out to a drummer friend in college and never got it back, I should ask him if he still has it.
- bewareandaware 6y agoI thought they were all in the same key! I got mine because someone gave it to me. Then later I gave it to someone.
- nhumrich 6y agothey come in the different transposed keys for instruments that read in different keys, but technically. the actual key, is all the same.
- ganafagol 6y agoAnd the good jazz musicians can play their instrument from the C version. Over time you learn to transpose on the fly. It's just 12 keys after all, and the melodies tend to be not that complicated anyway.
- zwieback 6y agoI had the original Eb version but later bought the licensed C version. Some of my favorite tunes disappeared, now I understand what happened. Great article. I remember learning to play classics but also just enjoyed reading along with stuff I had no chance of learning myself.
- h2odragon 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat Illegal sheet music, underground comics, the "Anarchist's Cookbook" and similar... long tradition.
- jeffbee 6y agoI don't know if that analogy holds. A fake book is indispensable for working dance bands who want to play at banquets or whatever where someone will request songs the band hasn't played before. The Anarchist's Cookbook is just for teenagers to download and feel like they are sticking it to the man. There are not, to my knowledge, a whole lot of practicing anarchists.
- h2odragon 6y agoGood point. a closer analogy might be found in that body of knowledge i would call "telecom bullshit"; the arcane private standards that start to happen whenever you get near anything carrier or cell phone type stuff. I'm largely ignorant of it, but there is a library of data there thats certainly "encumbered" and still necessary. The minutiae of building codes; plumbing and electrical specifically, are such a body of knowledge without a corresponding bible. There's the apprenticeship "how its done," which implies "around here, where we know what the inspectors like"; in many places the inspectors have never seen a copy of the codes they're supposed to be enforcing.
- capableweb 6y ago> The Anarchist's Cookbook is just for teenagers to download and feel like they are sticking it to the man It does contain instructions on how to manufacture some smaller types of explosives and other goodies, so it's not completely useless. It was also initially released before the internet, and since the creation of the internet, lost a bit of it's usefulness of course. > There are not, to my knowledge, a whole lot of practicing anarchists. Maybe not where you live, but anarchism lives on across the world and you can find practicing anarchists inside most states around the world today, some groups bigger than others, CNT and FIJL being probably some of the bigger ones today.
- ybbond 6y agoahhh, good old days. back when I was in elementary school, my big bro was learning jazz and taught me music (still do, but my progress is slow). then he went to university. by the end of semester he came back home brought some chunky books printed on 70gsm paper. he give some to my cousins the blog's hero image reminds me of that book. one of them is still in my house's storage.
- Rochus 6y agoThere is a great potcast at the bottom of the page worth listening to, with even more interesting information than in the article. So many people were using the Real Book for years without knowing who actually compiled and typeset all these wonderful lead sheets.
- dhosek 6y agoBack in the 90s, one of my friends excitedly declared that she'd managed to get her hands on an illegal real book. At her birthday party, I found myself at the piano playing requests from it, but I wasn't familiar with the convention used in the book to write, e.g., C- for Cmin and I had assumed that the dash meant a diminished rather than minor chord. I had some really weird harmonizations coming out of that.
- whimsicalism 6y agoI've had the exact same experience... There were a few early, illegal Real Books that had songs you couldn't get ahold of from the licensed versions.
- mh8h 6y agoSaw the title, and thought it is going to be about what Erdos referred to as The Book, in which God keeps the most elegant proof of each mathematical theorem.
- FabHK 6y agoIncarnated as the wonderful Proofs from THE BOOK by Martin Aigner and Günter M. Ziegler. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proofs_from_THE_BOOK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proofs_from_THE_BOOK > During a lecture in 1985, Erdős said, "You don't have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book."
- allknowingfrog 6y agoIn case anyone missed it, this article is just the text summary that goes along with an episode of 99% Invisible. It's my favorite podcast, and I would encourage any HN fan to check it out.
- cecida 6y agoI love 99% Invisible.
- aphextron 6y agoThis is the problem with modern jazz. Treating it as some kind of canon is the antithesis of what it was in the first place. It's tantamount to writing down a conversation between two ancient philosophers and repeating it ad nauseum, expecting some new insight. Keith Jarett wasn't concerned with the stuff Art Tatum had done. Miles Davis wasn't trying to build on Louis Armstrong's rendition of Wonderful World. They were both exploring new spaces and trying desperately to break from the past to discover new forms. The mindless repetition and riffing on standards is why jazz has died as a relevant genre of music, and is seen as something that corny old men in suits listen to while sipping whiskey and feeling refined. Jazz used to be the cool sound because it was the avant garde, not some pretentious collection of standards written by dead people.
- p_j_w 6y agoIf you're not familiar with what those old philosophers said and how their arguments work, you're liable to make yourself look like a fool when you tread old ground not realizing it's old. Similarly with Jazz, if you wanna be avant garde, you should have some idea of the body of work that's come before you. A lot of the best musical rule breakers were classically trained and knew their shit.
- aphextron 6y ago>A lot of the best musical rule breakers were classically trained and knew their shit. Classical training is a different story. Musical theory is endlessly useful to know. But jazz has been stuck in a certain kind of sound for the last 40 years since those people who actually made it gave way to those who simply play it. And now there's just this idea of what jazz is and ought to be, rather than treating it as what is was originally; a complete break from the roots of the western classical tradition into a wholly new art form informed by the limitations of what they were leaving behind. It's sort of a cargo cult situation, really. You have these incredible artifacts left behind that came about as a result of complex processes of intense effort and struggle, yet those who inherited them act as if by imitating the same thing, they will get the same results. It's completely missing the point.
- iaresee 6y agoI can still remember going to Kinkos with a friend’s copy of the real book in 1996 to make a copy of my own and get it spiral bound. Not only did you get the charts, but you got their notes. And the notes of anyone before them from the book’s lineage. Still have. Still use it.
- webmaven 6y ago> I can still remember going to Kinkos with a friend’s copy of the real book in 1996 to make a copy of my own and get it spiral bound. I was, around that time, a Kinko's employee, and the company got really sticky about copyright in the next couple of years, especially after the regional franchises were bought out, clamping down on the official unofficial nod-nod-wink-wink say-no-more policy. A lot of it was driven by photographers upset at people getting their event photos scanned for which the photographer kept the rights, and students duplicating textbooks or handouts, but it bled into nearly everything and was becoming a huge PITA. My understanding is that it got even stricter after the FedEx purchase, though I wasn't there at that point.
- mooneater 6y agoI love my Real book, for me its a lifetime worth of music. Though I consider its versions as vanilla, it would be cool to see a real bebop version.
- hoprocker 6y agoThe Real Book, often considered the Real Inaccurate Book.
- barrenko 6y agoSince this is HN, any advice for someone wanting to get from basically zero music knowledge to reading and playing jazz stuff? Let's say keyboard or guitar. I do know some music theory from elementary / high school.
- kaoD 6y agoGo back to the fundamentals first. https://www.musictheory.net/lessons https://www.musictheory.net/lessons Learn this by heart then learn it again! Best lessons ever for Music Notation and Music Theory 101. Just keep in mind this is for the "western common-practice period", not some kind of intrinsic property of music. Then watch a lot of Adam Neely, learn on https://www.justinguitar.com/ https://www.justinguitar.com/ if you play guitar, and just devote lots of hours to the many, many, many free resources on the internet (which now you will be able to search for, since you will start to know the unknown unknowns). See you in a few years, the self-taught way is long but rewarding. Have fun! EDIT: Also, remember learning both horizontally (theory) and vertically (play the damn tunes!) It's easy to fall into the unidimensional growth trap.
- biggieshellz 6y agoI'm going to give different advice from the other person. Start out getting some basic technique and reading ability, but when you want to play jazz stuff, it's really a language. Learn by imitating -- transcribe (by ear) and play other people's solos and try to get the articulations, dynamics, rhythms, and so forth exactly right. Train your ear -- learn to hear the different chord colors (major/minor/dominant/diminished/half-diminished) and degrees of the scale. A lot of this can be self-taught, but it really helps to have a mentor, and lessons can really be helpful. That's what I did when I initially learned in high school. Go on your own until you hit a roadblock or get stuck in a rut, then take a lesson. Also, don't forget that jazz is a communal activity. After you achieve some base level of competence, you really need to start playing with other people, and preferably other people who are better than you are.
- cjaybo 6y agoI've played both piano and guitar for over a decade, at what I'd consider to be a relatively advanced hobbyist level. I enjoy playing jazz, but I'm not so sure anyone would enjoy listening! For me, lots of theory concepts "click" more easily on the piano. I think it's partially a visual thing -- on a keyboard things like intervals are visually apparent (how many keys are between these two notes), whereas it requires a bit more mental overhead to conceptualize the same things on a guitar fretboard. I greatly prefer to discover and play around with new musical ideas on the keyboard first for this reason. Others' mileage may vary! As far as resources go, I'm a fan of Mark Levin's "The Jazz Theory Book". It starts with basic theory then works through more advanced concepts.
- stereoabuse 6y agoI had no idea this history! My Bb copy for trumpet must have been from the first year of legitimate production. Always enjoyed reading this handmade comic-sans-y notation and have fond memories of my high school trio playing extended version of Red Clay.
- Udo_Schmitz 6y agoDidn’t know about the legal implications. A bunch of Real and Fake Books were readily available at the music library in Germany I frequented in the 80s. I’d bet they’re still available now.
- MrGando 6y agoThe real book is actually full of egregious mistakes and philosophically speaking is quite questionable. There’s a significant body of great Jazz musicians (eg: Yotam Silberstein) who avoid the book at all costs. My teacher -who’s part of Yotam’s quintet- is also very careful with the book and tries to avoid it.
- cjohnson318 6y agoOn any list of "Jazz for Beginners" you'll see Blue Bossa, and right off the bat, in the fourth measure, The Real Book has an unlikely Bb7 chord. Most jazz musicians I've spoken with use the changes Cm7 / Cm7 / Fm7 / Fm7 for the first four measures, instead of The Real Book's Cm / Cm / Fm7 / Bb7. I'm not sure how that Bb7 got there, or how it's stayed there after 50 years, but there it is.
- hamiltonkibbe 6y agoI just checked since I’ve never heard it played with that Bb7 in bar 4... I’ve got one of the old unlicensed editions and it has the “right” changes, Cm7 / Cm7 / Fm7 / Fm7. Some of the stuff in the legal versions is particularly wonky.
- cjohnson318 6y agoThat's very interesting. I've only been playing piano for a few months and I was very surprised/distressed to notice this discrepancy.
- MrGando 6y agoThere's tons of examples. Check Yardbird Suite by Charlie Parker in the RB, you'll also find a lot of mistakes :)
- squarefoot 6y agoDoes it also contain the drumming part scores?
- analog31 6y agoI'm a bassist. I got my Real Book in 1982. I was already playing in the high school jazz band, but as a suburban kid, I had zero exposure to things like jam sessions and live jazz performances. Nobody had taught me how to learn harmonies from recordings, so I was kind of lost. The Real Book gave me a way to follow recorded tunes and grasp what the players were doing. Later on, being able to play from "lead sheets" enabled me to play with musicians who were a lot better than me, and was really how I learned to play. But eventually, I was hauling a ton of fake books to every gig. About 20 years ago, I was running late, and decided to leave my fake books behind. And I survived. I had memorized most of the tunes that were played regularly in my locale, and forced myself to learn the rest by ear, on the bandstand. So I tell people that the two best things I've done for my jazz playing were: Getting a Real Book, and getting rid of my Real Book. Today, those tunes are hopelessly overplayed, and I prefer finding bands to play with, who are willing to venture off the beaten path, with less familiar tunes or especially original material.
- bsder 6y ago> Today, those tunes are hopelessly overplayed Which is, in fact, the point. You can't "jam" over a tune that everybody doesn't know forwards, backwards, and sideways. I do agree that it would be nice if musicians added something from the latter half of the 20th century to "standards".
- analog31 6y agoJamming over a tune that you don't know is called "faking." That's a skill unto itself. ;-) But I think it's also a skill worth learning.
- scarecrowbob 6y agoI've spent a lot of time playing bass on stage with band's I've never rehearsed. I heard a saying the other day you might like... bass players aren't paid to play quickly, they are paid to hear quickly.
- TMWNN 6y agoAlmost exactly at the same time as The Real Book's publication, appeared the Lions' Commentary on Unix v6 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions%27_Commentary_on_UNIX_6th_Edition,_with_Source_Code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions%27_Commentary_on_UNIX_6t... ). Also disseminated via surreptitious copies at first, also ultimately legally published.
- tkgally 6y agoOne of the best purchases I ever made was a two-volume collection of jazz standards published in Japan with the English subtitle “All of the Jazz Standard [sic]” [1, 2, 3]. It includes the melody, chords, and lyrics for over 400 well-selected songs. A bit pricey, but all of the songs seem to have been properly licensed for publication in Japan. I bought my copy twenty years ago and I’ve been using it ever since. (I play piano.) [1] https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/%E9%AB%98%E5%B3%B6-%E6%85%B6%E5%8F%B8/dp/4117740237/ https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/%E9%AB%98%E5%B3%B6-%E6%85%B6%E... [2] https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/%E9%AB%98%E5%B3%B6-%E6%85%B6%E5%8F%B8/dp/4117740245/ https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/%E9%AB%98%E5%B3%B6-%E6%85%B6%E... [3] https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/g271937333 https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/g271937333
- wirrbel 6y agoReal book and fake book have been so influential that transcription errors or „odd“ choices have somewhat become Standards and you see people be irritated if people play the original compositions
- daebersold 6y agoGrowing up, my uncle had every Jazz book in the world. He was world-renowned Jazz Educator. Because I was just a kid, I had no idea how famous. I remember seeing shelves upon shelves of realbooks, etc. I appreciate this article so much. Thanks for sharing.
- tjr 6y agoIf you are who I suspect you are, my first real jazz education was a class using one of your uncle's books (along with the Real Book). Great experience.