The Jazz Piano Book - How to get suggested tunes?

There's a guitar teacher on our music school, who also plays piano and is a jazz musician, quite famous in Slovenia. I'll ask him if I see him. Thanks for the advice.

Thanks, I'll go to the music store Hartmann (the biggest one in the country) and ask for the book. I couldn't find it, because it has a very ultimate title ... But I did find most of the other realbooks printed so far.
I dunno, this title looks quite convincing ...:
http://www.sheetmusic1.com/fakebook.best.290239.html ...
As well as this one ...:
http://www.sheetmusic1.com/fakebook.ultimate.html
But again: "There's no song duplications between these two books ..." This tells you, that you need them both to get the standards, I guess.


Edited by AbrahamSapien - February 24 2010 at 14:30

Easy Money wrote: ^ I have that book, it's great. Just go buy a standard jazz fake book, I'm not sure where you buy them, I always bought mine from other jazz musicians, but they shouldn't be too hard to find. Some easy tunes to start with are Start Up by Miles, Satin Doll by Ellinton or All the Things You Are, also My Funny Valentine.

Thanks, but what is actually a standard fake book? There's just so many of them and I don't want to buy a series of 3 just to get all of that stuff if not neccessary. I mean, I don't wanna get fooled, because, looking at the catalogue, I get the impression, that is's like buying the Queen Greatest Hits. There's only a few bigs hit on each of the 3 CDs, which you buy separately. So, any suggestions about a fake book?

Hi,
 So, I've bought this Jazz Piano Book by Mark Levine and started to study it. I don't have trouble understanding this whole thing, but I would like to get sheets for the suggested tunes to work on, because I can't remember all of it just through reading and playing the examples.. It's probably meant in the Real Book form, so lead melody and harmony. I would like a suggestion about buying a Real Book with as many of those tunes as possible. So, if anyone here owns the book, please let me know, or at least suggest me som other tunes, make a sellection of tunes ar anything else, please. Maybe the way you study it or something.
Thanx for your attention.