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Article: New Releases Include "Standards Real Book".
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- Music Trades
- Article date:
- April 1, 2000
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Sher Music Co., publisher of the world-famous "New Real Book" series of jazz fake books, has released its most important fake book yet, The Standards Real Book.
This book, almost 600 pages long, contains many of the greatest tunes of George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hart, Johnny Mandel, Henry Mancini, Michel Legrand, Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael, Harry Warren, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Duke Ellington, Harold Aden, and many other composers of standard tunes.
More than just reprints of the original sheet music, the Standards Real Book charts are a consensus of how jazz players have adapted and improved these tunes over the years. There are also ...