The European Real Book
The Best in Contemporary Jazz from Europe!
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SKU: HS.242152
The Best in Contemporary Jazz from Europe!. Fake Book (Includes melody line and chords). Book only. Published by Sher Music Company (HS.242152).ISBN 9781883217242. 884088047450. 8.75x12 inches.
Sher Music Co. proudly presents The European Real Book! Jazz lovers will surely want a copy of this landmark document, with over 430 pages of tunes by Europe's greatest jazz composers, including Michel Petrucciani, George Shearing, Toots Thielemans, Philip Catherine, Bill Bruford, Tommy Smith, Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, Barbara Dennerlein, Claus Ogerman, Nguyen Le, Kenny Wheeler, Django Reinhardt, Enrico Pieranunzi, Tim Garland, Joe Zawinul and 100 others. Publisher Chuck Sher comments, For sheer beauty, this is the single greatest fake book I have ever published. And the people you have never heard of are the most amazing ones in the book! The European Real Book has all the features musicians have come to expect from Sher Music's world-class books: 100% accurate composer-approved charts, easy-to-read manuscript, great tune selection, and many extra features like sample bass lines, chord voicings, rhythm section hits, harmony parts, an extensive drum appendix, etc. Streaming MP3 files of over two-thirds of the tunes are online at www.shermusic.com so musicians can hear the songs for themselves! Jazz educator Mark Levine says, At last! The New Real Book goes global with the hippest jazz tunes from Paris, London, Barcelona, Rome, Warsaw, Amsterdam...
About Fake Book:
A "fake book" contains songs written in a concise format that includes only the melody and chords, letting you interpret the song's performance as you feel is appropriate. This is great for quickly learning songs by yourself or with an ensemble. Each song in a fake book only has a single melody actually written out in notes, which is usually the vocal or lead melody. This melody will have the lyrics written beneath the notes, with each word aligned to its corresponding note. Above the notes of the melody will appear the names of the appropriate chords to play - for example, a "C minor" chord would be written as "Cmin" or Cm", rather than writing out all of the notes in those chords as they appeared in the original version of the song. This format is very compact, which is why you will often see fakebooks containing 500 or more songs.