The AB Real Book Bb Edition: B-Flat Instrument: Mixed Songbook

Artist Edition B-Flat Instruments-Pat Metheny is one of the most important voices in modern music. Through his writing recordings and performances he has created a significant body of work that places him among the major musical figures of our time. With his recent induction as the youngest member of the Downbeat Hall of Fame Metheny becomes only the fourth jazz guitarist to be chosen for that honor joining Charlie Christian Django Reinhardt and Wes Montgomery. He has won twenty Grammy® awards in twelve different categories been named Best Guitarist in countless polls over four decades and has sold millions of records worldwide.For all his accomplishments in music hiscompositions have become modern standards beloved by musicians all over the world. With this volume Metheny has selected 147 of his most played tunes to create a new type of Real Book approved and gig-tested by the composer himself! This edition is arranged for all B-flat instruments. Titles include: April Joy • Better Days Ahead • Bright Size Life • Farmer's Trust • (Go) Get It • H & H • Have You Heard • Jaco • James • Lakes • Last Train Home • Midwestern Nights Dream • Phase Dance • Question & Answer • The Red One • So May It Secretly Begin • Sueno Con Mexico • Uniquity Road • Unity Village • Whittlin' • and more!

Over 100 of the best-known tunes taken from 11 of the most acclaimed fake books out there The Best Of Sher Music compiles a diverse range of the most essential songs for B Flat instruments that you need to know. At long last a compilation of tunes taken from the world-famous fake books from Sher Music. Every book in the Real Books series contains a dizzying number of jazz standards and contemporary records all arranged in an accurate and easy-to-read engraving. Now these books have been combed for the best songs which have been placed into this edition. So with The Best Of Sher Music youknow you're only getting the greatest songs.  Featuring transcriptions of some of the best jazz songs ever recorded this book is truly invaluable for any serious or casual jazz musician. The book is helpfully divided into sections so that you can easily find your favourite song or just choose a style to learn. The jazz standards and bossa nova section contains songs like Perdido and The Midnight Sun. Within the bebop section there are those virtuosic compositions like Ornithology Scrapple From The Apple and Yardbird Suite by the incomparable Charlie Parker. The contemporary jazz section holds the key to a number of more recent compositions and those from more exotic locations. So you need one of the Sher Music's renowned fake books but don't know which one to get? Why not pick up The Best Of Sher Music Real Books and get the best of the best to advance your practising and your performing.

Bb Edition. Your new official bebop bible! Over 200 classics arranged for Bb instruments in Real Book style. Titles include: Anthropology · Au Privave · Be-Bop · Boneology · Boplicity (Be Bop Lives) · Byrd Like · Cherokee (Indian Love Song) · Confirmation · Donna Lee · Doxy · Epistrophy · 52nd Street Theme · Four · Goin' to Minton's · Good Bait · Groovin' High · Hi-Fly · Hot House · In Walked Bud · Jay Bird · Lady Bird · Lennie's Pennies · Moose the Mooche · Move · Oblivion · Oleo · Parisian Thoroughfare · Rosetta · Salt Peanuts · Solar · Teaneck · Tin Tin Deo · Tour De Force · Tricrotism · Wail · Woodyn' You · Yardbird Suite · and more!

This is a unique jazz resource. It is an exciting compilation for all jazz musicians but is specifically conceived for less experienced players. It contains lead sheets for a hundred tunes together with specially commissioned arrangements including those for Level/Grade 4 or 5 exams for Jazz Clarinet Sax (Alto/Tenor) Trumpet and Trombone.