This is a collection
of lead sheets conceived in the spirit of the tradition of The
Real Book,
a collection of unauthorized transcriptions of Jazz
standards and show tunes in lead sheet format
which has circulated
in the Jazz community for years. I have composed a series of instrumental
songs
encompassing most of the general categories of these now-famous
standards:
Ballad, Swing, Waltz, Bop, Bossa, and Straight-Eighths (or
Latin).
Any musician performing these songs is greatly encouraged
to use them
simply as starting points, much as one would improvise
over a "standard".
Only the essence of the harmonies
and melodies need be preserved.
This book (volume I) can be downloaded here for free.
If you plan to record or perform any of these compositions, please let me know.
~Titles~
A Turn of the Page
~ ABC's ~ Absence of Closure ~ Acousma ~ Agate ~ Anomie ~ Aphorism
~ April Showers ~ As Is ~ Breezy ~ Caveat ~ Chess ~ Child ~ Choices
~ Cloister ~ Conatus ~ Contributions ~ Crystal (Quartz) ~ Deep
~ Dodex ~ Dorian Glory ~ Easy Payments ~ Embark ~ Essence ~ Flannel
~ Gnomon ~ Go, Gentle Scorpio ~ Goldie's ~ Good Luck ~ Hiatus
~ Horizons ~ Hummus ~ Hybrid ~ I'm Gonna' Miss You Bad ~ In The
End ~ In The Night ~ Indian Oven ~ Infinite Night ~ Inside Out
~ Instinct ~ Into ~ Irony ~ Isomorphisms ~ It Doesn't Matter Anyway
~ It's All the Same ~ Joie de vivre ~ Juicy Sweet ~ Kevlar ~ Lathe
~ Lullaby ~ Lumina ~ Mind ~ Myriad ~ Neon ~ New York At Midnight
~ Noumenon ~ Not Mine ~ On The Move ~ Pabulum ~ Parallax ~ Pesto
~ Prajna ~ Prisms of Time ~ Prospects ~ Quarks ~ Reciprocity ~
Regina ~ Rudiments ~ Shake the Tree ~ Signs ~ Solasticity ~ Some
Summer ~ Someday, Princess ~ Somnabulisms ~ Southampton ~ Sweatdance
~ Take the Front ~ Tao ~ Tests of Endurance ~ There's Music Somewhere
~ The Feel ~ The Garden of Luck ~ The Oracle ~ The Self ~ The
Steel Forest ~ The Universe ~ The Way It All Goes By ~ Timing
is Everything ~ Two Feet ~ Unknown ~ Untitled ~ Verge ~ Violet
Blue ~ With This Ring ~ Xenon... many more to come.... |