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New Real Book Vol 1 - Chuck Sher
New Real Book Vol 2 - Chuck Sher
New Real Book Vol 3 - Chuck Sher
Standards Real Book - Chuck Sher
The Real Easy Book Volume 1- Chuck Sher
The Real Easy Book Volume 2 - Chuck Sher
The Real Easy Book Volume 3 - Chuck Sher
The Latin Real Book - Chuck Sher
The European Real Book - Chuck Sher
The All Jazz Real Book - Chuck Sher
The World's Greatest Fake Book - Chuck Sher
Jazz Arrangements of Public Domain Songs - Chuck Sher
Jazz Songbook Series - Chuck Sher
Aebersold Play-A-Long Series
Hal Leonard Jazz Play-Along Series
The Definitive Jazz Collection - Hal Leonard
The Real Little Ultimate Jazz Fake Book - Hal Leonard
Thelonious Monk Fake Book - Hal Leonard
The Ultimate Fake Book - Hal Leonard
The Best Fake Book Ever 1st edition - Hal Leonard
The Best Fake Book Ever 2nd edition - Hal Leonard
The Best Fake Book Ever 3rd edition - Hal Leonard
The Ultimate Jazz Fake Book - Hal Leonard - Herb Wong
The Real Jazz Standards Fake Book - Hal Leonard
The Real Jazz Fake Book - Hal Leonard
The Real Jazz Classics Fake Book - Hal Leonard
Jazz of the 60s and Beyond - Hal Leonard
The Best Chord Changes For The World's Greatest Standards - Frank Mantooth
The Best Chord Changes For The Most Requested Standards - Frank Mantooth
The Best Chord Changes for the Most Popular Songs - Frank Mantooth
The Best Chord Changes for the Best Known Songs - Frank Mantooth
The Best Chord Changes for the Best Standards Ever - Frank Mantooth
Champ Champagne 'Real Chord Changes' series - Hal Leonard
A Jazz Chord Book - Lionel Grigson
Latin Fakebook - Warner Bros
Just Standards Real Book - Warner Bros
Just Jazz Real Book - Warner Bros
Real Jazz Book - Warner Bros
The BbEbop Book - Music Sales
100 Jazz & Blues Greats - Wise Publications
The Jazz Sourcebook 2 - Wise Publications
The Real Book Of Blues - Wise Publications
The Real Book Of Jazz - Wise Publications
Professional Pianist's Fakebook - Lee Evans
Professional Chord Changes And Substitutions - Dick Hyman
All The Right Changes - Dick Hyman
101 Latin Hits For Buskers - Wise Publications
The Pat Metheny Songbook - Hal Leonard
The Music Of John Coltrane - Hal Leonard
The Trane Book - Hal Leonard
Charles Mingus - More Than A Fake Book - Hal Leonard
The Kenny Barron Collection - Hal Leonard
Abbey Lincoln Songbook - Hal Leonard
Bill Evans Fake Book - Hal Leonard
Charlie Parker Omnibook - Atlantic Music
Straight Ahead Jazz Fakebook - Gerard and Sarzin
Bebop Pianists - Gerard and Sarzin
Ragtime & Early Jazz - 1900-1935 - Jazz Bible Series - Hal Leonard
The Swing Era - 1936-1947 - Jazz Bible Series - Hal Leonard
Jazz of the '50s - Jazz Bible Series - Hal Leonard
R&B Fake Book - 2nd Edition - Hal Leonard
The Blues Fake Book - Hal Leonard
Torch Songs - Hal Leonard
The Big Book Of Torch Songs - Hal Leonard
Torch Songs In Sultry Keys - Hal Leonard
Belter's Hot Standards - Hal Leonard
Budget Books - Jazz Standards - Hal Leonard
The AB Real Book - Associated Board
Pocket Changes Volume 1
Pocket Changes Volume 2
Horace Silver Complete Volume 1: The 50s
Horace Silver Complete Volume 2: The 60s
Jazz Standards Progressions Vol 1 by mdecks
Jazz Standards Progressions Vol 2 by mdecks
Jazz Standards Progressions Vol 3 by mdecks
The Public Domain Song Anthology by Aperio
[Hal Leonard] Real Book Vol 1
[Hal Leonard] Real Book Vol 2
[Hal Leonard] Real Book Vol 3
[Hal Leonard] Real Book Vol 4
[Hal Leonard] Real Book Vol 5
[Hal Leonard] Real Book Vol 6
[Hal Leonard] Real Vocal Book Vol 1
[Hal Leonard] Real Vocal Book Vol 2
[Hal Leonard] Real Vocal Book Vol 3
[Hal Leonard] Real Vocal Book Vol 4
The Big Book of Jazz - 2nd Edition - Hal Leonard
Frank Sinatra Anthology - Hal Leonard
Frank Sinatra Anthology - Volume 2 - Hal Leonard
Irving Berlin Fake Book - Hal Leonard
Norah Jones - Come Away with Me - Hal Leonard
Latin Fake Book - Hal Leonard
The Real Dixieland Book - Hal Leonard
The New Broadway Fake Book - Hal Leonard
[Old] Real Book Vol 1 *
[Old] Real Book Vol 2 *
[Old] Real Book Vol 3 *
[Old] Vocal Real Book *
Satanic Changes *
Readers Digest Songbooks *

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Illegal fake books :

* Books marked with an asterisk are illegal as the composers & publishers of the tunes included have not given their permission for the tunes to be included, nor do they receive any royalties. For reasons of both legality and musical quality we do not recommend that you should attempt to obtain any illegal books, nor do we know where you could get them from anyway. However, there was a time when some of these illegal books were the only source for much jazz material and for this historical reason there are copies on many people's bookshelves. Their indexes are included here as they may be helpful to these people. Please do not ask us about obtaining them as you will not get any reply.

What This Index Is For

It's for locating tunes rapidly without having to pull armloads of fakebooks off your bookshelf - you can go straight to the right one(s). Also if you want to buy a new fakebook, it might help you to decide which one you want.

Search Tips

You should type one or more words (or partial words) separated by spaces, in the text field alongside the "Search" button.

All matching is case insensitive, and all characters typed are searched for literally (so don't use quotation marks unless the title you're looking for has quotation marks in it).

It doesn't make any difference what order you type your words in, but every word or partial word you type must be matched by some part of the title to get a hit on that title. So if you type "Lover Man" (or "man lover") then this will match both "Loverman" and "Lover Man".

If you give a very short search string such as "a" or "love" then this will match too many titles for the search to be useful. In this case you will get a messsage suggesting that you should be a bit more specific.

If the title you are looking for is actually several words long then the best way to be more specific is to add some more words (or partial words) to your search.

Alternatively (if the title is short) you could specify that only short titles should be matched, by making a selection in the "Match titles of length" selection list, or you could specify "Match whole words only" which means that "love" will not match a title with the word "lover" in it.

Normally, the matching of partial words is useful : if you can't remember whether the title you are looking for is "Blue Sky" or "Blue Skies" then a search for "blue sk" will nail it.

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If You Can't Find the Tune You're Looking For

Then you could always transcribe it from a recording yourself. By an amazing coincidence it just so happens that that we (Seventh String Software) have written a program specifically to help with this task. It's called "Transcribe!", it runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and you can download it right now for a 30 day free trial.

Click here for information about Transcribe! (software to help transcribe recorded music) .

If Your Favourite Fake Book Is Missing From This Index

Then please email us to let us know. If the book you have in mind is relevant to jazz musicians then we might very well be happy to add it to this index. Note, however, that we do not plan to add any more illegal books as there are so many good legal books these days.

Publisher Links

Here are some links to publishers' websites where you can find more information and places to buy books. Note that we don't give out complete listings of book contents but you can often find such listings at the publisher's site.

Aebersold play-a-longs

Hal Leonard main site

Hal Leonard sales

Sher Music - Chuck Sher's books

Disclaimer

Although every effort has been made to ensure accuracy, we cannot guarantee it, and in fact there will surely be errors in any list this long. Please tell us of any errors you find, also any suggestions for other books to include or other improvements.

About Copyright

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The Fake Book Index is Copyright © 1998-2024 Seventh String Software. That is to say, the ideas expressed are not copyright (they can't be) but their expression in the files and data of this site is copyright.


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