AMC Book News 
Here's the latest scoop on AMC's books and sheet upgrades programs. Books are listed in projected chronological order.

1/16/09

Indexes There is now an index to all five fake books. It's available in .pdf format. All book indexes are in database (.dbf) format, which you can import into spreadsheets so you can add other tunes. Ask for any you want.

Dixieland Fake Book Vol. 1--Bass clef and Eb books: In Stock.
 

20s-30s Fake Book -- "Little Rock getaway"--
 I intended to include a sheet, but just couldn't decide what I wanted to do. I have the Joe Sullivan, Bob Zurke and Bob Crosby versions in my head, plus a later sheet music version which doesn't do the job. I want to do a sheet with a continuous lead line for horns.
Meanwhile, leadsheets of the Sullivan and Zurke solos are available from me.

"Oriental blues" This is really a piano solo, but I hope to do something for horns.

Chordbooks: The chordbooks were done (or started) in 1995-6, etc. with a program that won't open in Windows98. Fortunately, I can view the text with QuikView Plus, copy and paste it into WordPad to preserve it.
All 4 books have now been preserved.
Each tune will have to be reformated/edited in a new template, then transfered to another template to create the master pages. So there's no telling when Supertrad and Fanny Pak will be published.

Codpiece Chords--out-of-print
I plan to completely revise it. The last part of the book contained basic ballroom dances for which its users might expect audience requests, but these will all be in Fanny Pak. I'm going to put all tunes in alphabetical order, add new tunes, add a lot of verses to old tunes, check the chords against the fake books.
"20s-30s Fake Book" has a bunch of standards, especially foxtrots, that wereactually from the 20s. Some of these are already in Codpiece, and will stay there.

Supertrad (DCUP 2) Chord Book
Now that "20s-30s FB" is out I can start this book. 200??.

Fanny Pak Chord Book
This is essentially the tunes in "Gig Book", and most of those pages are done. I need ca. 100 more tunes for it, including the "add-ons". 200??