Fakebooks

This is a list of fakebooks - books containing lead sheets for dozens or even hundreds of jazz compositions. Select a book from the list at left, or simply scroll the list below.

The Real Book

This is illegal - just a collection of lead sheets put together long ago without permission and photcopied endlessly over the last two decades. The accuracy is about what you'd expect from someone who couldn't be bothered to obtain permission to transcribe the tunes in the first place. It is by far the most popular fakebook around, and has largely detemrined which tunes are considered standards by today's generation of players.