The Jazz Pianist’s Ultimate Guide To The Real Book: Table of Contents

A guide to help you play better jazz piano
by
Ron Drotos

Here is the Jazz Pianist’s Ultimate Guide to The Real Book. Enjoy the journey, and “let the music flow!”

Table of Contents (Click on the song title you wish to view):

Introduction
African Flower (petite Fleur Africaine)
Afro Blue
Afternoon In Paris
Airegin
Agua De Beber (Water To Drink)
Alfie
Alice In Wonderland
All Blues
All By Myself
All Of Me
All Of You
All The Things You Are
Always
Alright, Okay, You Win
Ana Maria
Angel Eyes
Anthropology
Apple Honey
April In Paris
April Joy
Arise, Her Eyes
Armageddon
Au Privave
Autumn In New York
Autumn Leaves
Beautiful Love
Beauty And The Beast
Bessie’s Blues
Bewitched
Big Nick
Black Coffee
Black Diamond
Black Narcissus
Black Nile
Black Orpheus
Blue Bossa
Blue In Green
Blue Monk
The Blue Room
Blue Train
Blues For Alice
Bluesette
Body And Soul
Boplicity (Bebop Lives)
Bright Size Life
Broadway Blues
Broadway
But Beautiful
Butterfly
Byrd Like
C’est Si Bon
Call Me
Call Me Irresponsible
Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man
Captain Marvel
Central Park West
Ceora
Chega De Saudade
Chelsea Bells
Chelsea Bridge
Cherokee
Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White
A Child Is Born
Chippie
Chitlins Con Carne
Come Sunday
Como En Vietnam
Con Alma
Conception
Confirmation
Contemplation
Coral
Cottontail
Could It Be You
Countdown
Crescent
Crystal Silence
D Natural Blues
Daahoud
Dancing On The Ceiling
Darn That Dream
Day Waves
Days And Nights Waiting
Dear Old Stockholm
Dearly Beloved
Dedicated To You
Detour Ahead
Deluge
Desafinado
Desert Air
Dexterity
Dizzy Atmosphere
Django
Doin’ The Pig
Dolores
Dolphin Dance
Domino Biscuit
Don’t Blame Me
Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
Donna Lee
Dream A Little Dream Of Me
Dreamsville
Easter Parade
Easy Living
Easy To Love
Ecclusiastics
Eighty One
El Gaucho
Epistrophy
Equinox
Equipoise
E.S.P.
Fall
Falling Grace
Falling In Love With Love
Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum
A Fine Romance
500 Miles High
502 Blues
Follow Your Heart
Footprints
For All We Know
For Heaven’s Sake
(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons
Forest Flower
Four
Four On Six
Freddie Freeloader
Freedom Jazz Dance
Full House
Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good To You
Gemini
Giant Steps
The Girl From Ipanema
Gloria’s Step
God Bless The Child
Golden Lady
Good Evening Mr. And Mrs. America
Grand Central
The Green Mountains
Groovin’ High
Grow Your Own
Guilty
Gypsy In My Soul
Half Nelson
Have You Met Miss Jones?
Heaven
Heebie Jeebies
Hello, Young Lovers
Here’s That Rainy Day
Hot Toddy
House Of Jade
How High The Moon
How Insensitive
How My Heart Sings
Hullo Bolinas
I Can’t Get Started
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love
I Could Write A Book
I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good)
I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
I Love Paris
I Love You
I Mean You
I Remember Clifford
I Should Care
I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
I’ll Never Smile Again
I’ll Remember April
I’m All Smiles
I’m Beginning To See The Light
I’m Your Pal
Icarus
If You Never Come To Me
Impressions
In A Mellow Tone
In A Sentimental Mood
In The Mood
In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
In Your Quiet Place
The Inch Worm
Indian Lady
Inner Urge
Interplay
The Intrepid Fox
Invitation
Iris
Isn’t It Romantic
Is You Is, Or Is You Ain’t (Ma Baby)
Isotope
Israel
It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)
It’s Easy To Remember
Jelly Roll
Jordu
Journey To Recife
Joy Spring
Juju
Jump Monk

June In January
Just One More Chance
Kelo
Lady Bird
Lady Sings The Blues
Lament
Las Vegas Tango
Lazy Bird
Lazy River
Like Someone In Love
Limehouse Blues
Lines And Spaces
Litha
Little Boat (O Barquinho)
Little Waltz
Long Ago (And Far Away)
Lonnie’s Lament
Look To The Sky
Love Is The Sweetest Thing
Lucky Southern
Lullaby Of Birdland
Lush Life
The Magician In You
Mahjong
Maiden Voyage
A Man And A Woman
Man In The Green Shirt
Meditation
Memories Of Tomorrow
Michelle
Midnight Mood
Midwestern Nights Dream
Milano
Minority
Miss Ann
Missouri Uncompromised
Mr. P.C.
Misty
Miyako
Moment’s Notice
Mood Indigo
Moonchild
The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
My Buddy
My Favorite Things
My Foolish Heart
My Funny Valentine
My One And Only Love
My Romance
My Shining Hour
My Ship
Mysterious Traveller
My Way
Naima
Nardis
Nefertiti
Never Will I Marry
Nica’s Dream
Night Dreamer
The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
A Night In Tunisia
Night Train
Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out
Nostalgia In Times Square
Nuages
(The Old Man From) The Old Country
Oleo
Oliloqui Valley
Once I Loved
Once In Love With Amy
One Finger Snap
One Note Samba
Only Trust Your Heart
Orbits
Ornithology
Out Of Nowhere
Paper Doll
Passion Dance
Passion Flower
Peace
Peggy’s Blue Skylight
Pent Up House
Penthouse Serenade
Peri’s Scope
Pfrancing (No Blues)
Pinocchio
Pithecanthropus Erectus
Poem For #15 (The Saga Of Harrison Crabfeathers)
Portsmouth Figurations
Prelude To A Kiss
Prince Of Darkness
P.S. I Love You
Pussy Cat Dues
Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars (Corcovado)
Quiet Now
Recorda Me
Red Clay
Reflections
Reincarnation Of A Lovebird
Ring Dem Bells
Road Song
‘Round Midnight
Ruby, My Dear
Satin Doll
Scotch And Soda
Scrapple From The Apple
Sea Journey
Seven Come Eleven
Seven Steps To Heaven
The Sidewinder
Silver Hollow
Sirabhorn
Skating In Central Park
So Nice (Summer Samba)
Solar
Solitude
So What
Someday My Prince Will Come
Some Other Spring
Some Skunk Funk
Somebody Loves Me
Sometime Ago
Song For My Father
The Song Is You
Sophisticated Lady
The Sorcerer
Speak No Evil
The Sphinx
Standing On The Corner
The Star-Crossed Lovers
Stella By Starlight
Steps
Stolen Moments
Stompin’ At The Savoy
Straight No Chaser
A String Of Pearls
Stuff
Sugar
A Sunday Kind Of Love
The Surrey With The Fringe On Top
Swedish Pastry
Sweet Georgia Bright
Sweet Henry
Take Five
Take The ‘A’ Train
Tame Thy Pen
Tell Me A Bedtime Story
Thanks For The Memory
That’s Amore (That’s Love)
There Is No Greater Love
There Will Never Be Another You
There’ll Be Some Changes Made
They Didn’t Believe Me
Think On Me
Thou Swell
Three Flowers
Time Remembered
Tones For Joan’s Bones
Topsy
Tour De Force
Triste
Tune Up
Turn Out The Stars
Twisted Blues
Uniquity Road
Unchain My Heart
Unity Village
Up Jumped Spring
Upper Manhattan Medical Group (U.M.M.G.)
Valse Hot
Very Early
Virgo
Wait Till You See Her
Waltz For Debby
Wave
We’ll Be Together Again
Well You Needn’t
West Coast Blues
What Am I Here For?
What Was
When I Fall In Love
When Sunny Gets Blue
When You Wish Upon A Star
Whispering
Wild Flower
Windows
Witch Hunt
Wives And Lovers (Hey, Little Girl)
Woodchopper’s Ball
Woody N’ You
The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise
Yes And No
Yesterday
Yesterdays
You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
You Are Too Beautiful
You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me
You Don’t Know What Love Is
You Took Advantage Of Me
Young At Heart
You’re Nobody ‘Til Somebody Loves You

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