Charlie Parker Omnibook for E Flat Instruments : Recorded Solos

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Summary: Charlie Parker Omnibook- recorded solos for Eb
Review: Although I didnt but this item online, it is still the best book I have ever looked at. It helps me with sightreading, and its just the best. If you're into Charlie Parker, then you can't miss this book. One of my favorites is Shawnuff... again, its the best book I've ever read through- its even better when you have a trumpet player to play with.

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Summary: Could use some improvements
Review: There's no denying this book is considered a classic, but it could use a few revisions. It appears not to have changed at all since its original appearance in 1976, including an annoying amount of tacky and out-of-date advertisements. In one instance, a half-page ad on the second page of "K.C. Blues" replaces what should have been Parker's second solo on that tune! Many of the songs are transcribed without key signatures - adding key signatures would make transposing tunes and riffs significantly easier. There are some rhythm errors in a few of the tunes ("K.C. Blues" has one measure with only three counts, "Ballade" also has a few rhythm mistakes and is nearly impossible to read the way it's written, with its overabundance of 32nd and 64th note runs). I'm not questioning the talent of Parker - some of the other "Omnibook" reviews here are based on Parker's playing abilities rather than the way his compositions are represented in these transcriptions. The simple addition of key signatures would be a huge improvement. For less experienced students, it'd also be nice to see a synopsis of the tune beneath the title describing the song's form or the origin of the chord changes. Simple things like that could make this book even more indispensable than it has become.
Do we all have to buy this book? Despite its shortcomings, I'm afraid the answer is "yes". Surely, there's some ambitious grad student out there somewhere willing to enter the entire book into Finale or Sibelius so we can at least get key signatures and those few rhythm corrections. Please?

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Summary: A university in a book.
Review: This book shows Charlie Parker's genius but it also gives the reader an accelerated education in music. Open to a transcription, maybe put the appropriate music on, and start playing on your instrument. Limited articulation marks -- how could anybody transcribe Charlie's articulation? -- but that just shows you what a genius Bird was. Bird lives!

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Summary: Very important material
Review: This is a well done transcription of Charlie Parker's recording on Dial, Savoy, Verve. There are 60! songs including Parker's solo in this transcription,such as KoKo, Confirmation, Ornithology, Parker's Mood, She Rotre, Yardbird Suite, Scrapple from the apple, Billie's Bounce... Not like the one 'Charlie Parker a Jazz Master' Hal-Leonard made, without any information on the records(the real sounds), this has information on series numbers of the records where the song was transcribed from.

The transcription is done very well;notes are took very precisely, in hand-writing, with chords changes on bars.'Not regularly 4 bar each row' is the only thing that I can complain with.

This book is a very important material for people who want to know what parker has made when he was improvising. With carefully analysis, one can get an insight view on what Parker was really doing. According to this, the book could be the most important marterail that ever written about Charlie Parker.

A must have. I'll give it 5 more * if I can. Hope there are more omnibooks from these giant were made.