How Bad Is the Real Book, Actually?

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🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Today, Peter and Adam discuss one of the most controversial resources for jazz musicians: the Real Book, and wether or not it lives up to its infamy.

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0:00.0	Hey, Peter.
0:01.0	Hey. You ever heard of a dust jacket? Like a, for an LP or something like that? Yeah, exactly. Yes, I have. I even have Mness.
0:31.2	And I'm Peter Martin.
0:32.1	And you're listening to the You'll Hear podcast.
0:33.5	Music advice.
0:34.7	Coming at you twice a week.
0:36.2	Coming at you?
0:36.6	What?
0:38.0	Thought I'd slip that in there. Got you. Gotcha. What did you just say? Hey, man, it's, you know, we're ever evolving, ever changing, ever adapting. So we're going to add an episode. I feel like we just went down to one a week. That's right. The people love us too much. They've been demanding this. They've been asking for it. We've got to give the people what they want, man.
0:54.5	Okay.
0:54.8	That's how we do it.
0:55.3	All right.
0:55.7	So we'll do another episode here this week.
0:59.0	Yes.
0:59.3	Well, I'm excited about it now.
1:00.2	Okay, let's do it. Actually, the way this is going to work, it's already out. Because we're in the future, remember? How do you know all of this before it happens?
0:52.0	I got it all up here.
0:53.4	We'll talk about it after.
0:54.0	All right, well, we can talk about it later.
0:55.3	Well, today's episode is sponsored by Open Studio.
0:57.1	Go to Open Studio Jazz for all of your jazz lesson needs. Today, we're asking a question, and we're answering that question. How bad is the real book actually? Mm. The answer is, it's not great. It's not great.
1:28.3	It's not very good.
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