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Title: The Ultimate Jazz Fake Book by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation ISBN: 0881889792 Publisher: Hal Leonard Pub. Date: January, 1991 Format: Plastic Comb Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.2
Rating: 2
Summary: Poor
Comment: This is a book worth buying only if you are a singer looking for melody and text to jazz/dixie tunes. The chord progressions are weak, with many faults and flaws. The lineup is poor as well, as the compilation process has forced the songs to be typed with no concern to form etc. No four-bars-per-line here. No book to bring along to the gig, but a great resource for old-and-nearly forgotten tunes.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Tunes, but take the changes with a grain of salt !
Comment: This book has a fantastic selection of tunes. Its almost like THE REAL BOOKS 1 & 2 COMBINED plus THE NEW REAL BOOK only with those annoying commercial fake book chord changes. That is my major criticism... Basically what they do is give you chord changes that I guess are meant to help out players who aren't at the level where they can really reharmonize things on the spot, and need something quasi hip to play. The problem with that though is that people shouldn't really buy a fake book like this to LEARN how to play Jazz. You get a book like THE JAZZ THEORY BOOK (by Mark Levine) etc. etc. then apply that knowlege to the fake books. I think using a book like this as "instructional sheet music" (as a reviewer will occasionally imply to have done) actually hurt the aspiring Jazz student because they deprive him or her of the skill gained through instruction or experience of identifying basic Jazz forms (key to building repoitoire and improvisational ability). You just learn how to play specific songs and arrangements note for note - - and never learn how to think of the changes functionally in order to be able to improvise or accompany at a jam session or playing in an ensemble. Its really important for you to be able to look at a tune, tell what type of beast it is, then tackle it from that perspective... Hence, this is my main (and strong) criticism about the book : A good and functional fake book gives the musician the melody, the root of the chord, and its fundamental quality (major, minor, dom, etc.) - - after that, they *should* decide for themselves what type of extensions to or not to use - - - It is the musicians job to decide whether that C7 chord should really be played diminished, dominant, flat nine, raised nine, thirteenth - - But a book such as this will often jump the gun, for example not only won't it say C7 or C7b9, it'll say E diminished or something like that... Technically speaking it might be correct, but it distracts the improviser from the main point. (*and let me also say that in many ways this book is better than some of the others and even some of the non-commercially available professional fake books have these "errors" so these complaints aren't leveled exclusively against this book !)
This problem aside, if you DO know your basic Jazz forms, or are in the process of mastering them, I HIGHLY reccomend this book (and even if you're not, it IS an incredible book to futz around with). ...It offers an enormous wealth of tunes and definitely beats carrying along a brief case of fake books. Just carry a pencil with you. Just to give you a feel.. here are a few of the tunes in it...
Airegin All Blues Along Came Betty Angel Eyes Bag's Groove Be-Bop Bernie's Tune Billie's Bounce Bluesette Body And Soul Boplicity (Be Bop Lives) Caldonia (What Makes Your Big Head So Hard?) The Champ Cherokee Donna Lee Doodlin Jeannine Killer Joe Mercy, Mercy, Mercy Milestones
Minor Swing Nica's Dream A Night In Tunisia Oleo Parker's Mood Saturday Night Fish Fry Scrapple From The Apple Senor Blues Sister Sadie Song For My Father Sugar Twisted Walkin' Work Song
In summary, this is an excellent resource, just have a pencil in hand ! (In regard to the print, there are ways to deal with that problem. I'm glad I can fit it in my case !)
Rating: 3
Summary: what you'd expect
Comment: both the reviews above are accurate. there are some troublesome formatting issues with this book which lead it to be more useful for study and practice than for performance. and there are some tunes that, shall we say, stretch the idea of jazz (shake, rattle and roll?) . but that seems par for the course for a fake book to me. i liked the breadth of the collection, and have spent too many pleasant nights just browsing and playing things. if you're just starting to do jazz, it's a nice place to begin. also - guitarists - if you're looking to expand your chordal vocabulary, this book can be a fun way to do it.
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Title: The Hal Leonard Real Jazz Book: Over 500 Songs by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation ISBN: 0793562309 Publisher: Hal Leonard Pub. Date: February, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: This Is the Ultimate Fake Book With over 1200 Songs for Keyboard, Vocal, Guitar, and All 'C' Instruments (Fake Book Series) by Hal Leonard, Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation ISBN: 0793529395 Publisher: Hal Leonard Pub. Date: January, 1994 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: The Blues Fake Book by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation ISBN: 0793558557 Publisher: Hal Leonard Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Best Jazz Standards Ever (The Best Ever Series) by Hal Leonard, Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation ISBN: 0793529581 Publisher: Hal Leonard Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Ultimate Jazz Fake Book : B Flat/No 240080 by Lennon ISBN: 0881889806 Publisher: Hal Leonard Pub. Date: March, 1988 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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