[Dixielandjazz] Two Surprises from Al Levy

[Gluetje1 at aol.com]

A couple of weeks ago Al put a request on our list for help finding lead  
sheets for a few tunes.  With his request he offered to send a CD of one of  his 
Fake Books to anyone who could provide him with one or more of the tunes for  
which he was searching.  That offer was the first surprise!  I've had  plenty 
of requests for a lead sheet and don't mind sharing when I can.  But  I 
certainly thought it was generous of Al to offer to send a Fake Book CD in  return.
 
The second surprise was this week when the CD arrived.  The one Al  sent is 
entitled Musician's Reference Library, Fake Book 10, C  Instruments.  I know 
there are list mates who would appreciate having  this disk--I just don't know 
who you are.  I was wide-eyed at the number of  good tunes he includes that are 
not in standard fake books.  This  volume has a focus on tunes from Broadway 
Musicals plus Ethnic Collections  focused on French, German, Hawaiin, Irish, 
Italian, Jewish, Latin, and  Russian.  The files are in PDF format so if you 
have Adobe Acrbat Reader  you can open and print them.  Al includes his own help 
section to make it  even easier to navigate between the index, the tune you 
are looking for,  etc.  (An advantage of disk fake books is that you only have 
in  print the tunes that meet your needs.)  Lyrics are printed below the  
melody line.  I think Al uses Finale music writing software, but at  any rate, all 
is totally attractive and legible in format.  I haven't  discerned the exact 
number of tunes, somewhere past 450.
 
I do not know his pricing structure but here is his web site for more info  
or contacting him:
>_http://alevy.com_ (http://alevy.com) <
 
Ginny
 



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