Quality- 557 Jazz Standards In Bb - -full Extra
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The consensus among musicians online is that the C version is ubiquitous. Numerous forum threads from Sax on the Web (Saxontheweb) and Saxwelt detail the struggle of players who find the C PDF "in several pages" but cannot locate the Bb version. One user famously lamented in a German forum: A dedicated B-flat fake book eliminates this mental
The collection is widely considered a sintesi (a synthesis) of the various Real Books that were circulating at the time. One musician on a German forum described it as the unverzichtbare kleinste gemeinsame Nenner (the indispensable smallest common denominator) regarding the harmonies of the standards when playing with other jazz musicians. In other words, if you show up to a jam session with this book, you will have the agreed-upon changes that everyone else is likely using. Numerous forum threads from Sax on the Web