[TPIN] Real Book

[Travis Wilson]

to complicate matters a bit there are also the "New Real Books" 
published by Sher Music. There are now 3 volumes of those and they also 
come, I believe, in Bb Eb and C. I have had really good players tell me 
they prefer the New Real Books put out by Sher, and really good players 
tell me they prefer the original Real Books. I have not a clue, as I am 
not nearly good enough to be a true judge, but you might want to check 
out both the Real Books and the New Real Books to see what you prefer.

Travis


 CByron Jones wrote:
> Gin
> I hope all will chime in here to help out.
> I've had a copy of The Real Book, Vol. 1 the Bflat edition since 
> around 1980. It used to be that you could only get one in certain 
> "alternative" music stores, and we used friends who were college 
> students in Boston, or other places to send us one. They were illegal 
> to sell because the lead sheets were all copywrited materials. If you 
> search for The Real Book, you'll see Amazon.com sells them now. There 
> are bass cleff versions, Eflat versions, C versions, etc. So they are 
> in the main stream, and the original transcriptions are now in the 
> main stream and legal.
> There is even a "Vocal" Real Book" in C with lyrics.
> All other books are compilations by other publishers and are not "Real".
>
> I think it's in the sixth printing now, and there are three volumes. I 
> have vol's one and two in Bflat, and haven't seen the third volume.
> They ought to cost around $20 each, new.
> Hope this helps.
>
> Byron
>