Real Books & Fake Books

The New Real Book is the best-selling jazz fake book ever:

• A must for jazz guitarists (and other jazz musicians): the majority of the tunes in volume 1 are essential for your repertoire.
• 100,000 musicians world wide depend on this edition for accurate and easy-to-read sheet music for 100s of the most important songs in jazz music.
• The closest to the old (illegal) Real Book, but without the numerous mistakes of the original Real Book.
• A selection of standards, jazz classics, fusion and pop hits.
• The New Real Book Volume 1 includes charts of guitar players like George Benson, Wes Montgomery, Jim Hall, John Abercrombie and Lee Ritenour.
• The book to take to jam sessions, weddings and other jazz gigs.
• Created by musicians, for musicians.
• Guitarists need the C version...

Volume 2 is another Great Real Book From Sher Music.

• Many famous jazz standards, essential for your repertoire...
• The best compositions of Chick Corea, Horace Silver, John Coltrane, Mike Stern, John Scofield, Duke Ellington, ...
• Composer-approved transcriptions.
• Easy-to-read charts with many extras (bass lines, voicings, ...)
• Created by musicians, for musicians.

The Standards Real Book is the most accurate collection of standard tunes ever published.

• Features the best tunes from all the greatest Tin Pan Alley song writers, such as Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, Harry Warren, Duke Ellington etc.)
• The lyrics to every tune are included.
• The chords are derived from a consensus of the interpretations of the best jazz artists.
• No duplication of songs in any New Real Book.
• Almost 600 pages of transcriptions...

This book contains over 40 simple, but classic, jazz tunes by Miles, McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins, etc. Each song is on a left-hand page, and all the information that a band director would have to write out for his/her students is on the corresponding right-hand page - sample piano voicings, bass lines, guitar diagrams, scales for soloing, etc.

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CD1: The Jazz Classics. This CD makes practicing fun and realistic!  Word-class Rhythm secion accompaniment for tunes in The New Real Book Volume 1.

CD2: Choice Standards. This CD makes practicing fun and realistic!  Word-class Rhythm secion accompaniment for tunes in The New Real Book Volume 1.

CD3: Pop-Fusion. This CD makes practicing fun and realistic!  Word-class Rhythm secion accompaniment for tunes in The New Real Book Volume 1.

Some of the greatest Latin Real Book tunes as played by the original artists.