[Dixielandjazz] Fake Books

Stephen Barbone barbonestreet at earthlink.net
Sat Mar 22 18:22:47 PST 2003


Russ & List mates:

Yes you can print the pages you want. No transposition, they are usually in
the original, or most used concert key. You have to transpose on your own.
You get the lead line and the chords.

Russ Guarino wrote:

> Questions:
>
> Do you print out the pages you want?
>
> Is any of the material transposed to Bb or Eb parts?  Is there a system
> that allows transposition?
>
> Russ Guarino
>
> Stephen Barbone wrote:
>
> > Tom Wood wrote about the fake book they use. There is a CD Rom out with
> > the contents of 12 fake books on it. I am just going through them now
> > but there appears to be about 5000 tunes. Most, however, are not
> > Dixieland but mainstream jazz, bop, latin and the tin pan alley tunes
> > and all the musical show tunes over the past 70 years of so. Invaluable
> > to doing more "commercial" work.
> >
> > Includes all of the "Real Books", "Real Jazz Books' and The Bill Evans
> > book etc.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Steve Barbone
> >
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