50 Tunes List

spatzo

Well in fact who knows! Try!

Maybe it's time to read the story of those collections for musicians: "The Story of Fake Books," by Barry Kernfeld

I think one of the best ideas was the invention of the "tune-dex" cards

"Tune-Dex cards were index-card-sized summaries of songs, with the title, songwriter, publication date, licensing information, and prices on the front, and music and lyrics for the basic melody or chorus on the back. They were provided via subscription service in the 1940s through the early 1960s. "

Sorry anyway for the 1955 coffee spots on the score...

paulmcevoy75

https://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/126461#Comment_126461

Yeah I think the title "The Real Book" has something to do with the previous stuff being called "Fake Books"...the changes were generally not super accurate in what was around previously.

paulmcevoy75

Little Church_2.pdf

it is absolutely insane that it can read that handwritten chart and make a chart out of it.

spatzo

Yes and it was hard as Hermeto Pascoal's writing is rather childish...

The chords of Little Church are a little weird but in fact Miles Davis do not improvise at all on that tune. The whole gives strangely a very soft atmosphere.

paulmcevoy75

An Improvisor's Canon 0.07.pdf

Well I lost all sense of control. It was supposed to be 30 tunes, but there doesn't seem to be a reason to keep it there (I can make an abbreviated version easily).

I stand by most of the tunes in here, I think it's become an "aspirational" repertoire book for me, the majority of it is music I love and I think would be educational. THere's some stuff I actually haven't heard but was looking for challenging material (still looking for more "blowing tunes" in odd meters.

But there's a good amount of Django, a good amount of early jazz, plenty of modern stuff, some indian inspired stuff and eventually some african-ish stuff that I like.

Thanks to Spatzo for some clinch charts...some of them were solo transcriptions and that one tune was maybe too many pages but I used quite a few.

I've been obsessing about this for a bit so going to take a break for a minute (I hope) but I'm excited, I think printing this out and having it on my music stand will be cool.

It's funny that I used to think The Real Book was silly for having so many Steve Swallow tunes but now I'm like...those are some good tunes.

paulmcevoy75

These are the missing charts, some random obscure stuff

Contrafacts

• Bird of Paradise (Charlie Parker), on All the Things You Are
• Boston Bernie (Dexter Gordon), on All the Things You Are
• I Want More (Dexter Gordon), on All the Things You Are
• Dixie’s Dilemma (Warne Marsh), on All the Things You Are
• Lennie-Bird (Lennie Tristano), on How High the Moon
• Ko-Ko (Charlie Parker), on Cherokee

Brazilian

• A Rita (Chico Buarque)
• Samba e Amor (Chico Buarque), the Brad Mehldau version
• Imagina (Jobim / Chico Buarque)

Keith Jarrett, Carla Bley and ECM

• Country (Keith Jarrett)
• The Rich (and the Poor) (Keith Jarrett)
• A New Hymn (Carla Bley)
• The Lord Is Listenin’ to Ya, Hallelujah! (Carla Bley)
• Ghost Beads (Oregon)
• Sull Lull (Jan Garbarek)

Modern jazz

• Zhivago (Kurt Rosenwinkel)
• Black Codes (From the Underground) (Wynton Marsalis)
• Jugglers Parade (Dave Holland), in concert pitch
• New View (Alan Ferber)
• Nemesis (Kevin Eubanks)

Jean-Luc Ponty

• Tchokola (Brice Wassy, as played by Ponty)
• Rhum ’n’ Zouc (Jean-Luc Ponty)

Songs

• Lay Lady Lay (Bob Dylan)
• A Whiter Shade of Pale (Procol Harum)
• Wichita Lineman (Jimmy Webb)
• To Love Somebody (Bee Gees)
• Guilty (Randy Newman)