20 Handpicked Compositions from a Longtime Sher Music Family Member and Jazz Master-Craftsman
We are proud to give our jazz family access to the best songs of dozens of great jazz composers! Each composer personally selected 20 of their favorite original compositions and provided us with their own clean, accurate lead sheets — which we are now passing along to you.
These digital songbooks will give your band an instant boost in repertoire, or offer you hours of inspiration in the woodshed, learning directly from some of the modern masters of jazz composition. Also perfect to use as a play-along resource.
Larry Dunlap is a gifted composer and pianist whose contributions to Sher Music Co. go far beyond this songbook — for decades, he’s been the trusted hand behind many of the transcriptions that brought Sher Music’s most iconic books to life. His own compositions are lyrical, harmonically rich, and crafted with the same care and depth he’s brought to every project he’s touched.
Larry Dunlap is a first-call pianist in the San Francisco Bay Area and is also in-demand as an arranger and accompanist, e.g., for Mark Murphy, Dame Cleo Laine, Bobbe Norris, Kenny Washington, etc. He is also a wonderful composer, as you can tell from the audio and video clips below. (Don't miss his arrangement of Brubeck's "Bluette"!) Larry has impeccable taste, a wide-ranging musical imagination and a big heart - all qualities you'll find in abundance in this collection of his best compositions. Enjoy!
