Hal Leonard The Real Book Pocket Vol.1 (6th Édition)
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Essential Information About This Sheet Music
Essential Information About This Sheet Music
- A comprehensive collection of jazz standards blending major modern themes and essential Latin jazz classics, featuring key tracks like "So What," "All Blues," "Take Five," "Blue Bossa," and "Wave."
- An ideal resource for jam sessions, lessons, and rehearsals: the variety of styles allows for practicing improvisation, accompaniment, and real-life ensemble playing.
- A true overview of jazz colors: swing, bebop / hard bop, modal, bossa nova, ballads, and jazz waltz, to vary grooves and musical intentions.
- A reliable foundation to build an immediately playable repertoire, enrich harmonic vocabulary, and progressively prepare a set.
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Summary of This Sheet Music
This sheet music brings together a wide range of standards that form the foundation of the jazz repertoire, from modern jazz to Latin styles. The selection highlights major composers and essential themes: Miles Davis's modal universe with "So What" and "All Blues," Wayne Shorter's finely crafted writing ("Speak No Evil," "Nefertiti"), hard bop grooves by Horace Silver ("Song for My Father"), as well as Thelonious Monk ("Ruby, My Dear") and Bill Evans ("Waltz for Debby"). It also features notable pieces by Dave Brubeck ("Take Five"), John Coltrane ("Naima," "Impressions"), and Herbie Hancock ("Maiden Voyage"), offering a coherent repertoire to approach various languages and phrasing.
The Latin and bossa side is particularly well represented, with standards by Antonio Carlos Jobim ("Agua de Beber," "Meditation," "Wave") as well as essentials like "Mas Que Nada" and "Quizás, Quizás, Quizás." This alternation between swing, bossa, and more contemporary grooves allows for working on rhythmic steadiness, clave feel, and accompaniment precision, whether as a soloist or rhythm player.
Thanks to the variety of tempos and forms, the collection covers both ballads ("When Sunny Gets Blue," "You Don't Know What Love Is") and fast themes from the bop era ("Groovin' High," "Shawnuff"). It is an excellent playground to consolidate II-V-I cadences, explore substitutions, modes, and alterations, while improving sight-reading and ear training. Whether preparing for a jam, an educational workshop, or a set, this compilation offers rich and immediately usable material, on stage or in the studio.
Technical specifications
| Musical Genre | Musical, Film | Publication | Sheet music |
| Composer | Various | Genre | Jazz sheet music / standards |
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- “Ideal dimensions, very good readability and print quality. Highly recommended!”
- “Very satisfied with its quality and dimensions.”
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book received on January 28th.I am very satisfied with its quality and dimensions.thanks.cordially
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ideal sizes.very good readability and print.Recommended!
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The EU version is not very good, some standards are not present. (and yet classic)
The resilience of this pitiful book. Expensive for what it is. Then as far as readability is concerned, that's good.Automatically translated
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Questions frequently asked
Which jazz standards are included in this collection?
The repertoire notably includes "So What" and "All Blues" by Miles Davis, "Take Five" by Dave Brubeck, as well as "Naima" by John Coltrane. Themes by Wayne Shorter, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, and Herbie Hancock are also featured. "Speak No Evil", "Ruby, My Dear", "Waltz for Debby", and "Maiden Voyage" appear in the collection.
Are there any bossa nova and Latin pieces in this Real Book?
The selection includes "Agua de Beber", "Meditation", and "Wave" by Antonio Carlos Jobim. "Mas Que Nada" and "Quizás, Quizás, Quizás" complement this Latin and bossa orientation.
Does this sheet music allow practicing II-V-I progressions and modes?
The announced forms and tempos allow working on II-V-I cadences, substitutions, modes, and alterations. The themes "Impressions" and "So What" notably provide a basis for exploring modal language.
Which jazz styles are covered in volume 1?
The content spans modern jazz, hard bop, swing, bossa, and more contemporary grooves. "Song for My Father" represents Horace Silver's hard bop, while "Groovin’ High" and "Shawnuff" refer to tempos from the bop era.
Is The Real Book Pocket Vol.1 suitable for a jam session?
The book gathers standards such as "Nefertiti", "When Sunny Gets Blue", and "You Don’t Know What Love Is", usable for preparing a jam or a set.
