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The Real Book is a musicians' fake book – a compilation of lead sheets for jazz standards.Fake books had been around at least since the late 1920s, but their organization was haphazard, and their content did not always keep pace with contemporary musical styles.
A lead sheet or fake sheet is a form of musical notation that specifies the essential elements of a popular song: the melody, lyrics and harmony. The melody is written in modern Western music notation , the lyric is written as text below the staff and the harmony is specified with chord symbols above the staff.
As a jazz standard, "Easy Living" has been re-recorded many times. Notable releases include: [5] Clifford Brown - Memorial Album (1953); Bill Evans - New Jazz Conceptions (1956) ...
AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars and the review by Rick Anderson states: "This program finds him showing off his considerable writing chops with the help of an all-star group... His focus on the upper registers and the polyester tone of his five-string bass guitar will continue to annoy those who prefer to hear the bass played dark, low and ...
"Charleston" rhythm, simple rhythm commonly used in comping. [1] Play example ⓘ. In jazz, comping (an abbreviation of accompaniment; [2] or possibly from the verb, to "complement") is the chords, rhythms, and countermelodies that keyboard players (piano or organ), guitar players, or drummers use to support a musician's improvised solo or melody lines.
Peter Rutledge Koch, also known simply as Peter Koch (born 1943) [1] is an American letterpress master printer, [2] artists' book maker and publisher, typographer, educator, author and book designer. Koch is internationally known for his fine press artists' books. [ 3 ]
"Blues for Alice" is a 1951 jazz standard, composed by Charlie Parker. [1] [2] The standard is noted for its rapid bebop blues-style chord voicings and complex harmonic scheme which is a fine example of what is known as "Bird Blues".
The misconception stems from Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, a book of sheet music by various composers (mostly Bach) in which the minuet is found. [191] Compositions that are doubtful as works of Bach are cataloged as "BWV Anh.", short for "Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis Anhang" ("Bach works catalogue annex"); the minuet is assigned to BWV Anh. 114.