The Jewish Fake Book (Fake Books)

This is a great resource for any musician to have. I recently played at a synagogue for a food festival, and I put together a small jazz group to play some songs out of this book. It is nice that it has chords and words, and enabled us to play with a jazz combo. The only suggestion I would have for this book would be to detail what specific holiday, occasion, or festival each song belongs to, so that someone doesn't play a funeral song at a birthday or something!Otherwise, this book is laid out very well and very easy to use.

Almost every Jewish song is in here! Each member of my Jewish band, Hamish, has a copy. We put them in a spiral binding because of the amount of use. I've played mine almost to death. Very easy renditions. A fake book is composed of lead sheets with words, chords and treble cleff only. This book is for C instruments. I think there is another one for other types of instruments, maybe E flat or B. Not sure.

I was familiar with Velvel Pasternak however, I did not know the name of his compilation of Jewish songs. I am a Judaic educator that was looking for a book of Jewish music..I have several students that play guitar, piano etc and can accompany our group when we get together for services and holiday observances. This book is exactly what I needed. A large choice of Jewish music from Yiddish, Israeli and Chassidic tunes. I am so happy to have found it!

A treasure trove of of Traditional, Modern and American Jewish songs. Unfortunately, the two songs I was looking for weren't in there but there are plenty of others I would have loved to use.

Good book. Interesting categories of songs: kelzmer, dance, sephardic, etc. the accordion teacher liked that. Accordion player is learning a song and I have played 2 songs. Very nice! Both accordion teacher and Bass teacher want to buy one.

Had the songs we were looking for and my 11 year old was able to start playing right away.

Good variety. Many standards. Exceeded expectations.

Excellent collection

One of the best books for a selection of classic Jewish music

On y retrouve tous les classiques, les piliers de la musique yiddish.Très lisible pour les chanteurs, il y a des chants du répertoire klezmer et séfarade.

Un très grand recueil de musiques juives pour les mariages, danses, chansons plus ou moins traditionnelles. Avec paroles, accords.Seul regret: aucune indication sur le tempo, les nuances, le type d'accompagnement. Mais pour ce prix, on ne peut pas trop demander.

au piano et au violon, très bien et très facile à jouer, avec la touche vieille Europe que nous cherchions