Italian Wedding fakebook

[Ted Samsel]

Bill M. sez:
> 
> Foax, before a flame war develops out of a misunderstanding,
> somebody'd better clarify that "fake book" isn't a snub; it's a very
> common jazz term.  A fakebook is a collection of charts for jazz and
> pop standards, used by musicians to navigate (ok, fake their way
> through) songs they might have to cover during a session whether or
> not they're familiar with those songs.  TRP seems to be counting on
> the reader to pick up the musical sense of this phrase, as he does
> with so many other terms of art.  The D&G Italian Wedding Fake Book
> would be full of things like Bm7+9, not the infamous Deleuzian BwO.  
> (Geez, aren't there more musicians around here?)

Just wait til these jokers start misinterpreting surveying & carto-
graphic terminology. (;-)

(snarf!)

Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net 
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