[Dixielandjazz] Bob Nabors' Book

[Scott Anthony]

Bob (Neighbor) probably put his 2 kids through college because he worked as 
an Art Director for McGraw Hill for many years, not from sales of his 
fakebook I should think. It definitely is ubiquitous though.

Mal Sharpe had an updated version of the original book for awhile, with 
fixed chords and pages of some tunes' lyrics interspersed and added before 
Bob's Finale-based version came out.

Incidentally, right in the middle of working on the new, computer-composed 
version, there was terrible rain and flooding in the Chicago area (1996 or 
1997?), and Bob's entire basement became 6 feet deep in water - he lost his 
entire record and CD collection, all his antique cornet cases, all his sheet 
music, and, most importantly, his Mac with the hard-drive and 1000 hours of 
work on the new fakebook. However, the good news was, I was able to get a 
bunch of Bay Area musicians to donate money to buy him a new Mac and have it 
delivered as a surprise just before Christmas that year, and he was able to 
get most of the data for the new book off the flooded hard drive.

He's retired now and lives in central Vermont now and no longer plays jazz, 
but he is in a number of concert bands and his wife Sue sings in a number of 
choral groups.

Scott Anthony


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "billsharp" <sharp-b at clearwire.net>
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Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2010 9:44 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Bob Nabors' Book


>I one time met Bob Nabors and  said, "Your book seems to be everywhere. 
>I've even seen it in bands overseas, so they must have gotten it while they 
>were in California at the Sacramento Jubilee.  (and they had).  So, Bob, 
>have you made any money on it ?"  His response was that he'd put 2 kids 
>through college.  Not bad for a hand-written-self-published-word-of-mouth 
>publication.  Probably not possible to duplicate that feat today.
> I personally used that book as my bible on every gig, and still go to gigs 
> with it, as do many trad musicians.
>
> ... and so it goes,
> Bill keeps-his-pencil Sharp
>
> email tags:
>  I'm generally more interested in what I have to say than other people.
>
> There's no limit to the things I can't do.
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