You Jazzers will thank me for this...

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 15 Jan 2013 10:08 pm

This is an amazing resource site for jazz players brought to my attention via guitarist Matt Warnock.

It has all the charts from the old version of the Real Book, plus mp3's of the original recordings so you can hear every track from the book!

Check it out here:

http://www.realbooksite.com/

You're welcome.

Jussi Huhtakangas · Post by **Jussi Huhtakangas** » 16 Jan 2013 12:02 am

Whoa, what a goldmine!! Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!

Mike Neer · Post by **Mike Neer** » 16 Jan 2013 5:29 am

Crazy site! Careful on some of those charts, though. I've never had a Real Book that didn't have a ton of errors.

My favorite is the Real Vocal Book and also Solos and Transcriptions (incredibly rare, but it has a ton of transcriptions in it, especially George Benson).

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 16 Jan 2013 7:53 am

Thanks Jimbeaux

Mark van Allen · Post by **Mark van Allen** » 16 Jan 2013 12:24 pm

Wow, way cool resource. Thanks, Jim!

Bill Hatcher · Post by **Bill Hatcher** » 16 Jan 2013 6:10 pm

nice!!! gave a quick listen to toots playing bluesette....great resource!!

Post by **Dave Mudgett** » 16 Jan 2013 7:58 pm

This is a cool resource indeed. Funny, when I went there, I also immediately clicked to listen to Bluesette.

Yeah, there are errors - in fact, I have had people pick me up for playing some of those tunes 'as-written' because they learned them off the Real Book and thought 'that must be correct'. But I think at least some of those 'errors' are simply due to transcribing a later version where someone altered the head slightly.

Bob Watson · Post by **Bob Watson** » 17 Jan 2013 12:19 am

Thanks Jim, a great resource!

Sam Conomo · Post by **Sam Conomo** » 17 Jan 2013 1:00 am

thanks jim.
sam

robert kramer · Post by **robert kramer** » 17 Jan 2013 5:37 am

Thank you

Brett Lanier · Post by **Brett Lanier** » 17 Jan 2013 8:50 am

I've been using this site for real book charts. http://www.realbook.us/
If you sign up with them, you can transpose to any key signature.

David Mason · Post by **David Mason** » 17 Jan 2013 9:04 am

Boy, it's nice to dip into, but I was trying to listen to a whole song, "Afro Blue"... Mp3's, whew. I'm not sure if it's good, or bad, but I just can't listen for long. I was having the same problem with all those Hawaiian downloads - it's a nice idea, but that ultra stripped-out, ultra low-information low-bit stuff... yikes. I know it's "free" but, just perhaps, you're getting what you pay for.... I'm not sure if I'd go as far as Bob Weir here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfjjzZvYnkE

They discuss a number of things, but Weir's money quote is at 4:50 or so:

...I don't think it's going to be news to anyone that digital music, particularly Mp3 music, is an assault on your nervous system. It raises your stress level, it's very difficult for your brain to re-assemble what it's hearing through your ears and make sense out of it and it's exhausting to your whole system....

I noticed quite some time ago among certain guitar students with the first generation of Line 6 & Behringer modeling amps - they'd make a hideous noise, and judge it fine - they just can't hear, they haven't been raised to. The interviewer above brings up what his 14-year is hearing, and considering fine. Remember the first-generation piezo Takamines at the Grand Old Opry? That... noise - the tinky plastic ukulele noise - it's now become just how guitars are supposed to sound anymore. I'm somewhere over five years into recovery from television, but even before the beast hit the recycle bin I was forced to bail out on "American Idol" a few years earlier. Between the bit-stingy Fox signal and the Sinclair Broadcasting Group's drastically stepping down the product further, all the guitars sounded like fuzztones - and so did all the singers! When you see the picture breaking up into a bunch of little squares and your eyes get scrambled trying to make some sense out of it, that's exactly what Mr. Weir's talking about, aurally. And the careful research into the effects on the human brain done prior to inflicting this stuff on malleable young brains indi... oh. Right.

I mean, thanks Jim! I just.... well, sorry you popped up in my crosshairs, but that "Afro Blue" sounded friggin' hideous.

Weird to think a few crazy old white-bearded hippies with their greasy old Fender Princetons may be the last line of defense against the seething hordes of the jellybrained new species, homo non compos mentis. Feed your head?

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 17 Jan 2013 9:11 am

Thank you for that nice rant.

Andy Volk · Post by **Andy Volk** » 17 Jan 2013 1:07 pm

Awesome resource.

Earnest Bovine · Post by **Earnest Bovine** » 17 Jan 2013 1:23 pm

awesome rant

Ron Randall · Post by **Ron Randall** » 18 Jan 2013 5:56 pm

THANKS !!!

I can always use iTunes for a better sound.

Chris Templeton · Post by **Chris Templeton** » 19 Jan 2013 11:39 am

Mahalo, Jim. It's amazing that one can have a listen to any of the tunes.
Great tool!

Chris Templeton · Post by **Chris Templeton** » 19 Jan 2013 11:56 am

Mahalo, Jim

Don Drummer · Post by **Don Drummer** » 19 Jan 2013 5:52 pm

Thank so much, Jim. As to the differences or "mistakes" one that recently got to me was the 3rd and 4th measures on Miles' "Four". I learned it as Bbm7 to Eb7. A Recent Jamey Abersold publication has it as Ebm7 to Ab7. A more knowledgable jazz piano player told me that was in fact the original change and that it became accepted through use. It has a different flavor and I'm not sure that it has ever been accepted even though it's the original. When you play it which do you use?

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 19 Jan 2013 6:17 pm

I prefer Bbm7 / Eb7

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