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245 10 a| Fakebook :b| improvisations on a journey back to jazz /c| Richard Terrill.;

250 a| First edition.;

260 a| New York :b| Limelight Editions,c| 2000.;

300 a| 255 pages ;c| 20 cm;

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505 0 a| Three saxophones -- Improvisations: 1st chorus: Bill Evans -- Traumatized with Myron Floren before the Bicentennial -- Improvisations: 2nd chorus: Stan Getz -- Master class -- Improvisations: 3rd chorus: Dexter Gordon -- Fakebook -- Improvisations: 4th chorus: John Coltrane -- How to listen/how to play -- Improvisations: 5th chorus: Wayne Shorter -- Why I played the blues -- Improvisations: out chorus: Tony Bennett -- Beginnings and endings.;

520 a| Writes Richard Terrill, "The name fakebook derives from recognition that a jazz musician who is improvising over a set of chord changes is 'faking,' making up his or her own melody. The fakebook then is a place to start, the structure upon which music is completed." For this fakebook, with its "improvisations" that pay homage to various greats like Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, and John Coltrane, and with its exploration of how jazz works, jazz is the place to start in coming to terms with one?s limits, in music and in life. After pursuing music as a young man--backing up celebrity performers at dances and county fairs, traveling with a rhythm and blues outfit, playing low paying jazz gigs in bars and lounges--Terrill concluded he'd never "make it" as a full time professional saxophonist. He became a published writer of memoir, poetry, and essays, followed a career as a teacher of writing, and for ten years never touched the horn. But then he took up playing again--almost as a whim at first, a self-dare--and soon rediscovered on weekend gigs the challenges, the despair and exhilaration, that jazz had always promised him. All of this he expresses in prose that glows with feeling and self-perception and makes this book a work of literary consequence and true inspiration.;

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Fakebook : improvisations on a journey back to jazz / Richard Terrill.

Author/creator	Terrill, Richard, 1953-
Format	Book
Edition	First edition.
Publication Info	New York : Limelight Editions, 2000.
Description	255 pages ; 20 cm
Subjects	Terrill, Richard, 1953- Jazz musicians--United States. --Biography. Jazz--History and criticism.

Contents	Three saxophones -- Improvisations: 1st chorus: Bill Evans -- Traumatized with Myron Floren before the Bicentennial -- Improvisations: 2nd chorus: Stan Getz -- Master class -- Improvisations: 3rd chorus: Dexter Gordon -- Fakebook -- Improvisations: 4th chorus: John Coltrane -- How to listen/how to play -- Improvisations: 5th chorus: Wayne Shorter -- Why I played the blues -- Improvisations: out chorus: Tony Bennett -- Beginnings and endings.
Abstract	Writes Richard Terrill, "The name fakebook derives from recognition that a jazz musician who is improvising over a set of chord changes is 'faking,' making up his or her own melody. The fakebook then is a place to start, the structure upon which music is completed." For this fakebook, with its "improvisations" that pay homage to various greats like Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, and John Coltrane, and with its exploration of how jazz works, jazz is the place to start in coming to terms with one?s limits, in music and in life. After pursuing music as a young man--backing up celebrity performers at dances and county fairs, traveling with a rhythm and blues outfit, playing low paying jazz gigs in bars and lounges--Terrill concluded he'd never "make it" as a full time professional saxophonist. He became a published writer of memoir, poetry, and essays, followed a career as a teacher of writing, and for ten years never touched the horn. But then he took up playing again--almost as a whim at first, a self-dare--and soon rediscovered on weekend gigs the challenges, the despair and exhilaration, that jazz had always promised him. All of this he expresses in prose that glows with feeling and self-perception and makes this book a work of literary consequence and true inspiration.
LCCN	2001274031
ISBN	0879109513

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