[Dixielandjazz] Bob Nabors' Book

[billsharp]

On 10,  Jul, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Scott Anthony wrote:

> 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
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>> 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
>>
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>> people.
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>> There's no limit to the things I can't do.
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