The Best of Sher Music Real Books (Eb)

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 C 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 you knowyou'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.

182 of the best European jazz tunes make The European Real Book a must have for any jazz player. This volume contains pieces by Michel Petrucciani, Florian Ross, George Shearing, Nguyen Le, Toots Thielemans, Philip Catherine, Bill Bruford, Tommy Smith, Enrico Rava, Django Reinhardt and almost 100 others. As with all Sher Real books this book features: 100% accurate composer-approved charts easy-to-read manuscript A great selection of tunes Many extra features like sample Bass lines, chord voicing, Rhythm section hits, harmony parts and an extensive Drum appendix. An exclusive and exciting feature of The European Real Book is that streaming MP3 files of over 100 tunes in the book are available free of charge from Sher Music.

The Real Books are the best-selling jazz books of all time. Since the 1970s, musicians have trusted these volumes to get them through every gig, night after night. The problem is that the books were illegally produced and distributed, without any regard to copyright law, or royalties paid to the composers who created these musical masterpieces. Hal Leonard is very proud to present the first legitimate and legal editions of these books ever produced. You won't even notice the difference, other than all the notorious errors being fixed: the covers and typeface look the same, the song list is nearly identical, and the price for our edition is even cheaper than the original! Every conscientious musician will appreciate that these books are now produced accurately and ethically, benefitting the songwriters that we owe for some of the greatest tunes of all time! Includes 400 songs: All Blues · Au Privave · Autumn Leaves · Black Orpheus · Bluesette · Body and Soul · Bright Size Life · Con Alma · Dolphin Dance · Don't Get Around Much Anymore · Easy Living · Epistrophy · Falling in Love with Love · Footprints · Four on Six · Giant Steps · Have You Met Miss Jones? · How High the Moon · I'll Remember April · Impressions · Lullaby of Birdland · Misty · My Funny Valentine · Oleo · Red Clay · Satin Doll · Sidewinder · Stella by Starlight · Take Five · There Is No Greater Love · Wave · and hundreds more! Editions also available in C, B-flat, and E-flat. Looking for a particular song? Check out the Real Book Songfinder here. / Instruments En Clé de Fa