Ragtime & Early Jazz - 1900-1935 (Jazz Bible Fake Book Series) [Paperback]

Hal Leonard Corp. (Creator)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1997 | Series: Jazz Bible Fake Book Series

This great fake book features 200 songs, including: Ain't Misbehavin' * All of Me * Autumn in New York * Basin Street Blues * Blue Skies * Body and Soul * Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man * Cocktails for Two * Everybody Loves My Baby * Falling in Love with Love * Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You * Have You Met Miss Jones? * How Deep Is the Ocean * It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) * Just a Gigolo * Mood Indigo * Moonglow * My Blue Heaven * My Romance * Ol' Man River * Puttin' On the Ritz * Remember * Solitude * St. Louis Blues * When I Take My Sugar to Tea * When My Baby Smiles at Me * Why Was I Born? * You Made Me Love You * You Took Advantage of Me * You're My Everything * more!

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Founded in 1947, Hal Leonard Corporation has become the worlds largest print music publisher, representing some of the greatest songwriters and artists of all time. We are proud to publish titles of interest to all musicians as well as music lovers, from songbooks and instructional titles to artist biographies and instrument price guides to books about the music industry and all the performing arts.

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• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation (January 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0793558069
• ISBN-13: 978-0793558063
• Product Dimensions: 11.9 x 9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,522,106 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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30 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This will just indicate the contents of this fake book, January 17, 1999

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[e-mail] (The Algarve Portugal) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ragtime & Early Jazz - 1900-1935 (Jazz Bible Fake Book Series) (Paperback)

As jazz band musician interested in playing ragtime and early jazz I awaited with eager anticipation the arrival of this fake book from Hal Leonard. I could not wait to open the wrapper and feast my eyes on the works of my favourite ragtime composers, legends like ScottJoplin, Joe Lamb, James Scott, Jelly Roll Morton et al. This would be a book to treasure. Classic Jazz composers such as Clarence Williams, Joe Oliver and the rest of the early jazz pioneers would shout their syncopated melodies from the pages. 200 of those marvellous tunes would be waiting to be played. This would be a jazzmans heaven. I opened the wrapper and a beautifully designed cover was revealed. 'Ragtime' the headline said in a 72 point nineteenth century' typeface. With heightened anticipation and trembling fingers, I turned to the contents page. What's this? 'The Blue Room', 'Cocktails for Two', 'Loch Lomond' Ole Man River' 'Noel Coward' Is this some sort of joke? John Coltrane, Stan Kenton. It must be. Where was the Ragtime in 72 pts, where was any Ragtime? Nowhere. Thats where. Early Jazz? OK, a couple by Armstrong and a couple by Ellington. Thats it. Thats all. I am asked to rate this book between 1 star and 5 stars. This book is a minus 5 stars, and I'm feeling generous. It is a travesty.It is a fake fake book. It has no connection at all with Ragtime or Early Jazz. So why is it called that? How can a publisher put out a book so titled. You may have observed by this time that I was not best pleased with the contents. I shall avoid, like the plague, anything else published by Mr Leonard, for you can be sure of one thing, whatever it says on the front cover it's bound to have no relevence to the contents

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Chords are Great, Selection Not Impressive, October 16, 2004

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Axeman (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Ragtime & Early Jazz - 1900-1935 (Jazz Bible Fake Book Series) (Paperback)

Having already purchased "The Best Blues Fake Book" and several others, I was prepared to be impressed with this but was not. Real jazz buffs aren't going to be satisfied with the selection in the book. The chords are exactly right and that's a comfort, but the book shouldn't be touting itself as early Jazz when it's missing many of the standards of the earliest days of jazz. I had expected to see more from the early Armstrong days, like "Cake Walkin' Babies." On the plus side it does have "Body and Soul," "All of Me," and "Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You."

As another reviewer noted, the chords are excellent, so if you're looking for the genuine article to improvise over, this is it. It's just a shame that the book leaned more toward Glenn Miller and less toward the earlier dixieland songs.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Nice selection, lousy chord choices, November 26, 2008

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Allan L. Scherr "hot jazz buff" (Rhinebeck, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ragtime & Early Jazz - 1900-1935 (Jazz Bible Fake Book Series) (Paperback)

This book and its companion, the Swing Era, remind me of the label on the Kirin beer bottle. The Kirin label is supposed to be a picture of a lion. But there were no lions in Japan and the picture shows an animal with hooves and legs like a horse. It's clearly a picture of a lion drawn by someone who had never seen a lion.
I've been listening to ragtime, early jazz and swing since the 50's, and the chord selection in these two fake books seem to be done by someone who has actually never heard the songs played the way they were orginally played. Neither my professional piano teacher nor I were able to get many of the songs in the two books to sound like anything without drastic changes in the harmony. I recommend the Warner Bros. books which have many of the same songs.