Real Easy Book 2 - C Version: C Instruments: Instrumental Album

The Real Easy Book Vol.2: Tunes For Intermediate Improvisers is a great resource for school jazz combos, private teachers or any musician who likes jazz. Perfect for students with a few years playing experience, right up to working professionals. It will save band directors countless hours of writing out scales for soloing, chord voicings, guitar diagrams and bass lines – they are all included with each tune. The educational material was developed in conjunction with the Stanford Jazz Workshop. Available in C, Bb, Eb and bass clef versions. With tunes by Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Horace Silver, Sonny Rollins, Wes Montgomery, Stanley Turrentine, Clark Terry , Cal Tjader, John Scofield, Kenny Burrell, George Benson, Cannonball Adderley, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joe Henderson and a host of others. / Ensemble Music / Recueil / Instruments en Clé de Fa

Volume 3 is perfect for jazz ensemble directors looking for one book to keep their students engaged and progressing all year long, as well as any musician interested in Sher Music's series of world-famous fake books. At over 200 pages, THE REAL EASY BOOK - VOL.3 comes in C, Bb, Eb and bass clef versions. It features 5-10 tunes from each historical era of jazz: Trad Jazz, The Swing Era, Classic Bebop, West Coast Jazz, The Blue Note Era, Contemporary Jazz, ''Groove'' Jazz, Brazilian Jazz and Afro-Cuban Jazz. The wide variety of styles included means that every jazz combo will be able to find exactly the material that fits their needs.Difficulty ranges from very simple blues, like Charlie Parker's ''Now's The Time'' to deep, but still playable, contemporary tunes, like Mike Stern's ''These Times.'' Also featured are some great beginning trad jazz arrangements of ''Bill Bailey'' and ''Alexander's Ragtime Band'', including separate clarinet and trombone obligato parts to get that authentic Dixieland feeling!In addition to the tunes and educational material, there are also fun and informative introductory texts for each section. These short histories of each era of jazz introduce both the flavor of the era, and a discussion of the musical innovations that each one brought to the evolution of jazz.The end result is a multi-dimensional teaching tool that will keep band directors and their students smiling all year long! / Instruments En Do

The only fake book specifically designed for middle school or high school classroom use. New, Expanded, Three-Horn version now includes two harmony parts for each song, horn parts to play as background behind soloists, shout choruses, etc.The Real Easy Book contains over 40 simple, but classic, jazz tunes by Miles, McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins, etc. Each song is on a left-hand page, and all the information that a band director would have to write out for his/her students is on the corresponding right-hand page - sample piano voicings, bass lines, guitar diagrams, scales for soloing, etc. Saves the teacher countless hours of prep work! / Instruments En Mib