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talkenhorn
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 Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2018 9:59 am Post subject: Real Books |
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So I have The Real Book 5th Edition and the Creole Real Book, what are some of the others I should get? It would be nice to work on the changes. What Real Books do you use the most? Thanks,
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| Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2018 10:31 am Post subject: |
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The Chuck Sher "New Real" books are amazing.
The iRealPro app for your phone/tablet is a great resource.
There's a book called "anthologie des grilles de jazz" that has a whole lot of the older mainstream tunes not covered in any other books. I consult that one often.
And the Abersold books are always a great resource.
Of course, all the above are often going to be idiosyncratic at best, downright misleading at worst. It's always best to check the chords against your favorite recordings of the tune to suss out any mistakes or weird substitute chords.
Cheers - good luck!
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| Turkle wrote: | | Of course, all the above are often going to be idiosyncratic at best, downright misleading at worst. |
I would say that of those listed, the most reliable are the Sher books (New Real Books, World's Greatest Fakebook, etc.)
Another decent one is the Colorado Cookbook.
If/when I stumble across a book I haven't used before, I store it away -- even if the changes are weird/wrong, it may have a hard-to-find melody that you can use as a springboard.
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Brent
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| Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 4:44 pm Post subject: books |
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I like how Aebersolds list the chord changes.
The Real Book I have is over 25 years old, so maybe they're different now. That being said, I don't like how they had written a lot of their chord changes.
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A great fake book, with about 1000 jazz standards is offered for free by Bob Roetker. He used to only offer a version in C. He now offers versions in C, Bb, Eb, and Bass Cleff.
http://bobroetkerjazzguitar.yolasite.com/free-stuff.php
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