All About Jazz book review of AJRB
Posted by Ian Patterson 23/3/2013
When & Where did you get your first Real Book?
Back in the late 1970s, median house prices were around $32k, you could buy a pint for not alot, a Commodore cost around $7k and those enterprising students at Berklee recently created the Real Book to "first and foremost an attempt to reinvent the concept of what a fake book was, to raise the bar for all such books to come." When it made it's way to Australia you could buy it under the counter. When and where did you get your first real book and what changed when you did?
It's finally here!
It's finally here! After many years of development it has arrived. The Australian Jazz Real Book. Available in old-school retro physical print as well as new-fangled hipster digital subscription. Over 400 tunes by more than 160 artists, 643 pages and weighing in at 1.843kg. Get yours today!
'One Week Jam' documentary about the Melbourne jazz/music scene.
This is the first half of 'One Week Jam', which is a 15 min documentary about the Melbourne jazz/music scene.
‘The Drawing room’ – Bob Sedergreen & Tim Nikolsky with Waleed Aly ABC Radio Nation Drive
Australia's rich tradition of Jazz composition has finally been chronicled in the first ever Australian Jazz Real Book. It was a mammoth undertaking and quite a political process. Waleed Aly spoke to jazz musician and author of the Australian Jazz Real Book Tim Nikolsky. Bob Sedegreen also came in for a chat and the trio punched out a version of Bob's 'Intersection'.