Gypsy Jazz Violin Repertoire book/sheet music?

NickH · March 2014

Just wondered if anyone could recommend a Gypsy jazz songbook for Violin? I'd I'd like too get my daughter up and running on a few tunes so that we can play together. I'm looking for Djangology and Minor swing in particular!

thanks

Nick

Perltone · March 2014

Check out Denis Chang's DC music online. Tim Kliphuis does videos and music to 25 Gypsy tunes. He has a melody head and then what he calls an intermediate solo for each tune that is pretty challenging.

Joli Gadjo · March 2014

Any fake book would do of course. But more specifically to the violin I understood from several Violinists that Kliphuis's book is much easier to understand and to read than Matt Glasers'.

NickH · March 2014

Thanks very much for that info. I'll investigate!

MacKeagan · April 2014

There was a link someone posted eons ago to a Django Fake Book, which was a free PDF download. Maybe if you poke around it'll turn up.

MichaelHorowitz · April 2014

@NickH these are good options:

http://www.djangobooks.com/Item/django_play_along_1

http://www.djangobooks.com/Item/the-gypsy-jazz-melody-book

And loads more violin specific books here:

http://www.djangobooks.com/Category/swing_violin_books

NickH · April 2014

Thanks Mac i'll have a look for that pdf.
Thnaks Michael. I'd not realised the Pearl Django book had music as well as tab. It makes it look even more attractive as it has Djangology on it!

Mandobart · April 2014

Django Fakebook 2008. 200 songs.

NickH · April 2014

Thanks MandoBart, that looks to be exactly what i'm looking for. I can't seem to find a link for download anywhere though. Even the gypsyguitar.de site!