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    Quote Originally Posted by Bobsax View Post
    Are you guys honestly telling me you play with people who have 2000 songs ( that means the melody Not just the chords ) memorized?
    At a jazz venue one rarely if ever gets requests. It's more like a concert.

    At events like weddings and corporate parties the requests are rarely for obscure tunes but mostly for standards that are pretty familiar. Usually at least one person in the band knows it. As for melodies, I almost always play those by ear, with the changes for a hint.

    2000 tunes would be pretty much. I guess when I was working I could do about 350 or so standards right off. If you called Tones for Joan's Bones I'd be at a loss. The playlist in my head is quite a bit shorter now, of course.

    Cheers,
    Jer
    Jerry Engelbach
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    Thanks, Bob.

    For the Wikipedia history of lead sheets I originally wrote most of the entry about Tune-Dex cards and the early fake books.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_sheet#History

    Cheers,
    Jer
    Jerry Engelbach
    Pianist • Arranger • Composer
    Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, México
    Music Website
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    The Internationale Website

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    I stumbled across the podcast link and thought its content was related to this discussion. I didn’t see the wiki connection.
    Thanks Jer for pointing it out and for your contributions there and here.
    )BOB

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