The Ultimate Jazz Fake Book includes:
• More than 625 songs important to every jazz library
• Carefully chosen chords with some common practice chord substitutions
• Lyrics to accommodate vocalists
• Easy-to-read music typography
• Composer and performer indexes.
The selection of songs in The Ultimate Jazz Fake Book is a result of an exhaustive effort to represent the many styles of music that make up that beloved idiom we call jazz. The styles found in this collection include: traditional, swing, bebop, Latin/bossa nova, hard bop/modern jazz and Tin Pan Alley standards/show tunes.
More than 625 songs including: Ain’t Misbehavin’ • All the Things You Are • Au Privave • Autumn Leaves • Bag’s Groove • Basin Street Blues • Bewitched • Birdland • Body and Soul • Cherokee • Cry Me a River • Darn That Dream • Desafinado • Django • Don’t Get Around Much Anymore • A Foggy Day • The Girl from Ipanema • Here’s That Rainy Day • I Can’t Get Started • I Concentrate on You • Little Boat • Love for Sale • Love Walked In • Lullaby of Birdland • Milestones • Moonglow • More • My Foolish Heart • A Night in Tunisia • Ornithology • People • The Preacher • ‘Round Midnight • Saint Thomas • Satin Doll • Sentimental Journey • Solar • Someday My Prince Will Come • Song for My Father • Strange Fruit • Take the “A” Train • Waltz for Debby • What a Diff’rence a Day Made • Work Song • Yardbird Suite • and many, many more!
Spanning more than nine decades of music, The Ultimate Jazz Fake Book fills a void for many musicians whose active repertoires could not possibly include this vast collection of classic jazz compositions and durable songs. Editions also available in C and E-flat.
