Real Book
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title:
Real Book
text:
The Real Book is a musicians' fake book – a compilation of lead sheets for jazz standards. Fake books had been around at least since the late 1920s, but their organization was haphazard, and their content did not always keep pace with contemporary musical styles. The Real Book was initially produced by two students at the Berklee College of Music in the 1970s, as an updated fake book. It became so popular that the book was eventually "legitimized" by publisher Hal Leonard, and re-released in a s
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Compilation of lead sheets
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Book
date created:
2004-01-20T02:45:27Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T08:02:06Z
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