The Real Little Ultimate Jazz Fake Book: C Edition (Fake Books) [Plastic Comb]

Hal Leonard Corp. (Creator)

Book Description

Series: Fake Books | Publication Date: December 1, 1992

635 songs spanning nine decades of music! Includes music from all jazz genres: traditional, swing, bebop, Latin, modern, standards, and more! Songs: All the Things You Are * Bag's Groove * Basin Street Blues * Desafinado * Donna Lee * The Girl from Ipanema * I Concentrate On You * Little Boat * A Night in Tunisia * Ornithology * 'Round Midnight * Solar * Song for My Father * Take the "A" Train * Tuxedo Junction * Waltz for Debby * and many 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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• Plastic Comb: 448 pages
• Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation (December 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0793520053
• ISBN-13: 978-0793520053
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #957,621 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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35 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Small Version of "The Ultimate Jazz Fakebook", July 6, 1998

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This review is from: The Real Little Ultimate Jazz Fake Book: C Edition (Fake Books) (Plastic Comb)

This book is a miniture version of Hal Leonard Corporation's "The Ultimate Jazz Fakebook". It's got all the same songs, it's just notebook sized.

I'm returning my copy because a) I already have the larger version and b) even with my glasses on, it's just too small to read on a music stand

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too many mistakes to be taken seriously, October 28, 2003

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Neal D. Smith (Davenport, Iowa USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Real Little Ultimate Jazz Fake Book: C Edition (Fake Books) (Plastic Comb)

I've never seen a fake book with so many inaccuracies. "So What", the Miles Davis standard, is presented in D dorian with the chords half a step too high for the melody. "Song for My Father" appears in 2/4 time, with the A section being one measure (two counts) short. "Basin Street Blues" appears without chord changes. There are plenty of bad chord choices in this book that don't come anywhere near fitting the melody. Furthermore, with "over 625 songs", omitted are such essential jazz standards as "Stardust", "I Got Rhythm", "Blue Bossa"... instead you get tunes like "Frosty the Snow Man" and pop tunes by Carole Bayer Sager. I gave up referring to this book a long time ago. I don't doubt that there are other mistakes I haven't come across. About as useful as a dictionary with misspelled words.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best selection I've ever seen., January 27, 2002

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B. Donnelly "Bendy" (Durham, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Real Little Ultimate Jazz Fake Book: C Edition (Fake Books) (Plastic Comb)

This doesn't have every song in the Jazz repetoire that I've wanted to learn, but it comes as close as I can imagine- it gets so many key songs from so many eras its hard to complain. Oddly, it's probably weakest with material from the pre-swing years, where many of the tunes are public domain, but, I can't make it more than two or three pages without thinking, "Yeah, I'll have to learn that one, too." And the chord choices are particularly strong- something that hasn't impressed me with other fake books. Yep. This is the one to get if you want to build up your repetoire.