The New Real Book, Volume 2 (Key of C) | Date: 28 April 2011, 07:48
|
The New Real Book, Volume 2 (Key of C)
By Chuck Sher
* Publisher: Sher Music
* Number Of Pages: 484
* Publication Date: 2005-06-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0961470178
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780961470173
Product Description:
More great tunes in the world-class New Real Book format. Along with many standard tunes, Volume 2 features over a dozen each of the best tunes by Chick Corea, John Coltrane and Horace Silver. Like all Sher Music fake books, it features composer-approved transcriptions, easy-to-read calligraphy, and many extras (sample bass lines, chord voicings, drum appendix, etc.) not found in conventional fake books.
Summary: New Real Book 2
Rating: 5
Great Fake Book. It has more contemporary song charts than the "The Real Books".
You can't beat the price!!!
Summary: Better Changes Found
Rating: 5
Sher has done a wonderful job of publishing tunes with the correct changes. Original as well as alternate changes are provided in easy to read, full page format. This is a big help for people like myself who have trouble reading small print. The spiral binding of the book allows for easy turning of the pages.
Summary: Need an Eb Book? If not, skip this...
Rating: 3
Good book. Terrific selection. But in two tries, I only received an Eb book, which is fine for alto and baritone sax players, but not if you need a C or Bb book.
Summary: Finally, a legit copy of the jazz musician's BIBLE!
Rating: 5
From playing in both my high school's and college's jazz ensembles, it was clear to me that "The Real Book" was the bible of jazz standards. No instructor was without a copy. As a bass player, there have been countless times were I was just tossed a photocopy of a page from the Real Book and the instructions of "Here, do a walk over this chord progression."
A number of things made this book the most demanded of its kind. First of all, it contained hundreds and hundreds of jazz songs in a single volume. Second of all, it mostly followed a one-page-per-song format, showing the most essential parts: the chord and structure changes, the introductions, and the melody. If a song seemed to center around something like a particular repeated bass line, then that line was also shown. And last but certainly not least, the type face and unique "hand written" look made it the by far easiest book to physically read (no eye strain!)
Unfortunately, The Real Book was next to impossible to hunt down. No music stores carried it, or at least admitted to carrying it. It was pretty much an under-the-counter item that you could only get if you knew somebody. I guess these $50 books were always secretly copied and bounded in some local guy's basement, in hopes of skirting all the legal copyright issues.
Finally, Sher Music Co. has taken the original Real Book, got copyright clearance from each and every living composer, and in so doing even got to correct many mistakes based off the the composers' very own lead sheets. They also threw in a number of full-page photographs of jazz greats. The result is the only LEGAL, updated, and widely obtainable version of the original underground book.
One of the reviewers here seemed to make the gross assumption that this is a piano book. It's not. It's a book for everybody in the band. The fact that there are C, Bb and Eb versions of the book should tell you this. I've always been amused by "Piano/Vocal" sheet music books for bands that never even had a piano or keyboard player. For rock bands, they usually attempt a bad transcription of the guitar on the treble clef, and an even worse transcription of the bass on the bass cleff (written an octave down, of course).
Which brings me to the reason why this book was always called "The REAL Book": it's because it didn't take the shortcuts that "Fake Books" take. "Fake Books" are called such because they allow you to "fake" the song, i.e. dumb-down some chord changes, play it in a presumably easier key, and usually even try to adapt the whole song to the single instrument of piano.
It's so great to see a legit copy of this book in print. If you play jazz, this is the one book always worth investing in.
Summary: Not compatible with just keyboard
Rating: 1
Chords used not compatible with keyboard where a bass has to be played due to split section of KB. Also music designed for an orchestra as it is divided into seperate sections for various instruments and drum solos. Too complicated. Was expecting that the music would include "riffs" or runs already written out but found none. Maybe ideal for professional musicians already in a band, but not for individual keyboardists gig.
|
DISCLAIMER:
This site does not store The New Real Book, Volume 2 (Key of C) on its server. We only index and link to The New Real Book, Volume 2 (Key of C) provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete The New Real Book, Volume 2 (Key of C) if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.
|
 |
|
Comments (0)
All
