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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.

Accented characters appear as their unaccented equivalents (i.e. French 'e-acute' becomes plain 'e').

Paired quotation marks always use double-blip quotes (Take the 'A' Train). Single-blip is used only as apostrophe (Ain't Misbehavin').

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, or at SendMeMusic

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The Real Book may refer to a number of compilations of lead sheets for jazz standards. It usually refers to the first volume of a series of books transcribed and collated by Berklee College of Music students during the 1970s.[1]

The name distinguishes it from widely available fake books, which print only chords and lyrics of standard songs to avoid copyright infringement. The Real Book included melody lines, thus infringing on copyright. Older versions were unlicensed and paid no royalties to copyright holders. In 2004, Hal Leonard published a licensed edition, which paid royalties.

The Real Book is published in editions to suit B, E, and C (concert pitch) instruments, as well as bass clef and voice editions ('low' and 'high' voice, with lyrics). Each edition is paginated identically.

History[edit]

Compositions by Steve Swallow, Paul Bley, and Chick Corea are heavily represented in The Real Book with jazz standards and classic jazz compositions. Those were the songs that were played most in Boston in the early 1970s when the book was written.[1] When Swallow was asked about the origin in February 2018, he said the book was written by students at Berklee who wanted to make money. They asked permission to use some of his songs, and he agreed. Swallow asked Bley and Steve Kuhn if they wanted some of their songs included, and they did; so they all contributed lead sheets. Swallow helped briefly with editing.[2]

Then I watched these guys finally get the book together. One of them had a beautiful manuscript that subsequently became classic—it's called the Real Book font, and it imitates with uncanny accuracy his hand. He went on to be a big-time music copyist in Hollywood.. The irony is that shortly after the book was put out, some other people realized they could photocopy it and sell it themselves, and the two guys who did all the work and put the book together made a lot less money than they had hoped to because there were imitation Real Books out there almost immediately.. The Real Book was imperfect; there were wrong changes throughout it, but it was tremendously more accurate than what existed previously. And also, it was a lot more legible; it was easy to read.'[2]

Only the first volume is the original. The two following volumes of The Real Book were produced. Volume 2 is printed in characteristically 'rough' handwriting and transcription, while the third volume is typeset on a computer. The transcriptions in The Real Book are unlicensed; no royalties are paid to the musicians whose songs appear in the book. Consequently, the book violates copyright and is therefore illegal. In the past, it was usually sold surreptitiously in local music stores, often hidden behind the counter for customers who asked. PDF editions of the book are often available illegally on P2P networks.

The name is most likely a play on words from the common name for these types of song folios: 'fake book'. But it could have been influenced by the Boston alternative weekly newspaper, The Real Paper, started by writers of The Phoenix newspaper in Boston after a labor dispute.

A variety of dates have been attributed to the book. The April 1990 issue of Esquire featured The Real Book in the 'Man at His Best' column by Mark Roman in an article called 'Clef Notes'. He stated, 'I don't know a jazzman who hasn't owned, borrowed, or Xeroxed pages from a Real Book at least once in his career,' and he quoted John F. Voigt, music librarian at Berklee. 'The Real Book came out around 1971.[3] The only material available in print then was crap.'

Another feature surfaced on April 10, 1994, in The New York Times article 'Flying Below the Radar of Copyrights'. Guitarist Bill Wurtzel was quoted as saying, 'Everyone has one, but no one knows where they come from.' The writer of the article, Michael Lydon, said, 'I got mine in 1987 from a bassist who lives in Queens and who attended the Berklee School of Music in Boston; many in jazz circles suspect that students there reproduced the first copies of it in the mid-70s.'[4]

Pat Metheny claims that while teaching at Berklee College of Music from 1973 to '74, one of his guitar students and one of Gary Burton's vibraphone students (both of whom wish to remain anonymous) invented the idea of assembling the anthology that would form The Real Book.[1]

Hal Leonard versions[edit]

In 2004, music publisher Hal Leonard obtained the rights to most of the tunes contained in the original Real Book and published the first legal edition, calling it the Real Book Sixth Edition in tacit acknowledgment of the five previous illegal versions. The cover and binding are identical to the 'old' Real Book, and the books employ a font similar to the handwritten style of the originals although the new editions are more legible. The other main improvements are that most of the editing mistakes have been corrected and every tune has been licensed and the copyright owners are being paid for the use of their intellectual property.

One hundred and thirty-seven tunes are missing in the 6th edition that were in the 5th, while 90 new tunes have been added.[5]

Hal Leonard released The Real Book, Volume II, Second Edition in answer to the Real Book, Volume II. This was followed by The Real Book, Volume III, Second Edition (July 2006), The Real Book, Volume IV (December 2010), The Real Book, Volume V (June 2013), and The Real Book, Volume VI (June 2016). These books contain much of the same material as their counterparts, and in most cases charts from Hal Leonard books are compatible with the Real Book charts. In some cases, compatibility issues occur where corrections have been made to some of the mistakes in the 5th edition charts; in other cases, 6th edition charts may reference changes on better or more authoritative recordings.

Selected editions[edit]

The real book eb pdf
  1. The New Real Book, compiled & edited by Chuck Sher (Charles D. Sher; born 1947) & Sky Evergreen (aka Bob Bauer; Robert E. Bauer; 1956–1997),[6] Sher Music (publisher) (1988)
    1st Edition, C & vocal version OCLC311905162
    Volume I
    Volume II
    Volume III, E♭ISBN978-1-883217-03-7
  2. The Real Book 2nd edition, Hal Leonard (publisher) (2004)
    Volume II OCLC605194191, 60841601
    Volume II, C OCLC213853072
    Volume III OCLC795309725, 787732883, 317729978
    Volume III, EOCLC605194255
  3. The Real Book, 2nd edition, O. Angabe (publisher) (1980) OCLC314155091
  4. The Real Book, Pacific edition, Real Book Press (1980) OCLC9593108
  5. The Real Book, 6th edition (2007) OCLC56846058, 189624769, 750243800

Note: The New Real Book, also in 3 volumes, published by Sher Music Co.,[7] is another legal and readily available modern alternative. The collection of tunes in it differs from the original Real Book, but this edition offers some of the same songs, in new transcriptions and a different notation.

Some other music publishers also apply the term Real Book to their own publications — for example, the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music publishes The AB Real Book. Alfred Publishing Co. has three real books.

See also[edit]

  • Ralph Patt, author of The Vanilla Book of 400 chord progressions for jazz standards
  • Chas. H. Hansen Music Corp., pioneer publisher of legitimate fake books

References[edit]

  1. ^ abcMetheny, Pat. The Pat Metheny Real Book: C instruments (Artist ed.). Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Hal Leonard. ISBN978-1480350595.
  2. ^ abSchroeder, David (Interviewer) (February 14, 2018). Steve Swallow & John Scofield Interviewed by Dr. David Schroeder, NYU Steinhardt Jazz Studies Director (Motion picture). New York City: NYU Steinhardt Jazz Studies.
  3. ^Man At His Best: Clef Notes, by Mark B. Roman (born 1962), Esquire, April 1990, Vol. 113 ISSN0194-9535
  4. ^Pop Music; Flying Below The Radar Of Copyrights, Michael C. Lydon (born 1942), The New York Times, April 10, 1994
  5. ^'The Real Book Listening Guide · Differences Between the 5th and 6th Editions'. archive.org. 9 May 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
  6. ^Obituary: Evergreen, Sky 'Bob Bauer,' 41, San Francisco, CA,San Francisco Chronicle, June 19, 1997
  7. ^Sher Music official website, Chuck Sher (Charles D. Sher; born 1947) (proprietor)
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    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.

    Accented characters appear as their unaccented equivalents (i.e. French \'e-acute\' becomes plain \'e').

    Paired quotation marks always use double-blip quotes (Take the \'A' Train). Single-blip is used only as apostrophe (Ain\'t Misbehavin\').

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    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.

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    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, or at SendMeMusic

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    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.

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    The Real Book may refer to a number of compilations of lead sheets for jazz standards. It usually refers to the first volume of a series of books transcribed and collated by Berklee College of Music students during the 1970s.[1]

    The name distinguishes it from widely available fake books, which print only chords and lyrics of standard songs to avoid copyright infringement. The Real Book included melody lines, thus infringing on copyright. Older versions were unlicensed and paid no royalties to copyright holders. In 2004, Hal Leonard published a licensed edition, which paid royalties.

    The Real Book is published in editions to suit B, E, and C (concert pitch) instruments, as well as bass clef and voice editions (\'low\' and \'high\' voice, with lyrics). Each edition is paginated identically.

    History[edit]

    Compositions by Steve Swallow, Paul Bley, and Chick Corea are heavily represented in The Real Book with jazz standards and classic jazz compositions. Those were the songs that were played most in Boston in the early 1970s when the book was written.[1] When Swallow was asked about the origin in February 2018, he said the book was written by students at Berklee who wanted to make money. They asked permission to use some of his songs, and he agreed. Swallow asked Bley and Steve Kuhn if they wanted some of their songs included, and they did; so they all contributed lead sheets. Swallow helped briefly with editing.[2]

    Then I watched these guys finally get the book together. One of them had a beautiful manuscript that subsequently became classic—it\'s called the Real Book font, and it imitates with uncanny accuracy his hand. He went on to be a big-time music copyist in Hollywood.. The irony is that shortly after the book was put out, some other people realized they could photocopy it and sell it themselves, and the two guys who did all the work and put the book together made a lot less money than they had hoped to because there were imitation Real Books out there almost immediately.. The Real Book was imperfect; there were wrong changes throughout it, but it was tremendously more accurate than what existed previously. And also, it was a lot more legible; it was easy to read.\'[2]

    Only the first volume is the original. The two following volumes of The Real Book were produced. Volume 2 is printed in characteristically \'rough\' handwriting and transcription, while the third volume is typeset on a computer. The transcriptions in The Real Book are unlicensed; no royalties are paid to the musicians whose songs appear in the book. Consequently, the book violates copyright and is therefore illegal. In the past, it was usually sold surreptitiously in local music stores, often hidden behind the counter for customers who asked. PDF editions of the book are often available illegally on P2P networks.

    The name is most likely a play on words from the common name for these types of song folios: \'fake book\'. But it could have been influenced by the Boston alternative weekly newspaper, The Real Paper, started by writers of The Phoenix newspaper in Boston after a labor dispute.

    A variety of dates have been attributed to the book. The April 1990 issue of Esquire featured The Real Book in the \'Man at His Best\' column by Mark Roman in an article called \'Clef Notes\'. He stated, \'I don\'t know a jazzman who hasn\'t owned, borrowed, or Xeroxed pages from a Real Book at least once in his career,\' and he quoted John F. Voigt, music librarian at Berklee. \'The Real Book came out around 1971.[3] The only material available in print then was crap.\'

    Another feature surfaced on April 10, 1994, in The New York Times article \'Flying Below the Radar of Copyrights\'. Guitarist Bill Wurtzel was quoted as saying, \'Everyone has one, but no one knows where they come from.\' The writer of the article, Michael Lydon, said, \'I got mine in 1987 from a bassist who lives in Queens and who attended the Berklee School of Music in Boston; many in jazz circles suspect that students there reproduced the first copies of it in the mid-70s.\'[4]

    Pat Metheny claims that while teaching at Berklee College of Music from 1973 to \'74, one of his guitar students and one of Gary Burton\'s vibraphone students (both of whom wish to remain anonymous) invented the idea of assembling the anthology that would form The Real Book.[1]

    Hal Leonard versions[edit]

    In 2004, music publisher Hal Leonard obtained the rights to most of the tunes contained in the original Real Book and published the first legal edition, calling it the Real Book Sixth Edition in tacit acknowledgment of the five previous illegal versions. The cover and binding are identical to the \'old\' Real Book, and the books employ a font similar to the handwritten style of the originals although the new editions are more legible. The other main improvements are that most of the editing mistakes have been corrected and every tune has been licensed and the copyright owners are being paid for the use of their intellectual property.

    One hundred and thirty-seven tunes are missing in the 6th edition that were in the 5th, while 90 new tunes have been added.[5]

    Hal Leonard released The Real Book, Volume II, Second Edition in answer to the Real Book, Volume II. This was followed by The Real Book, Volume III, Second Edition (July 2006), The Real Book, Volume IV (December 2010), The Real Book, Volume V (June 2013), and The Real Book, Volume VI (June 2016). These books contain much of the same material as their counterparts, and in most cases charts from Hal Leonard books are compatible with the Real Book charts. In some cases, compatibility issues occur where corrections have been made to some of the mistakes in the 5th edition charts; in other cases, 6th edition charts may reference changes on better or more authoritative recordings.

    Selected editions[edit]

    \'The
    1. The New Real Book, compiled & edited by Chuck Sher (Charles D. Sher; born 1947) & Sky Evergreen (aka Bob Bauer; Robert E. Bauer; 1956–1997),[6] Sher Music (publisher) (1988)
      1st Edition, C & vocal version OCLC311905162
      Volume I
      Volume II
      Volume III, E♭ISBN978-1-883217-03-7
    2. The Real Book 2nd edition, Hal Leonard (publisher) (2004)
      Volume II OCLC605194191, 60841601
      Volume II, C OCLC213853072
      Volume III OCLC795309725, 787732883, 317729978
      Volume III, EOCLC605194255
    3. The Real Book, 2nd edition, O. Angabe (publisher) (1980) OCLC314155091
    4. The Real Book, Pacific edition, Real Book Press (1980) OCLC9593108
    5. The Real Book, 6th edition (2007) OCLC56846058, 189624769, 750243800

    Note: The New Real Book, also in 3 volumes, published by Sher Music Co.,[7] is another legal and readily available modern alternative. The collection of tunes in it differs from the original Real Book, but this edition offers some of the same songs, in new transcriptions and a different notation.

    Some other music publishers also apply the term Real Book to their own publications — for example, the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music publishes The AB Real Book. Alfred Publishing Co. has three real books.

    See also[edit]

    • Ralph Patt, author of The Vanilla Book of 400 chord progressions for jazz standards
    • Chas. H. Hansen Music Corp., pioneer publisher of legitimate fake books

    References[edit]

    1. ^ abcMetheny, Pat. The Pat Metheny Real Book: C instruments (Artist ed.). Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Hal Leonard. ISBN978-1480350595.
    2. ^ abSchroeder, David (Interviewer) (February 14, 2018). Steve Swallow & John Scofield Interviewed by Dr. David Schroeder, NYU Steinhardt Jazz Studies Director (Motion picture). New York City: NYU Steinhardt Jazz Studies.
    3. ^Man At His Best: Clef Notes, by Mark B. Roman (born 1962), Esquire, April 1990, Vol. 113 ISSN0194-9535
    4. ^Pop Music; Flying Below The Radar Of Copyrights, Michael C. Lydon (born 1942), The New York Times, April 10, 1994
    5. ^\'The Real Book Listening Guide · Differences Between the 5th and 6th Editions\'. archive.org. 9 May 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
    6. ^Obituary: Evergreen, Sky \'Bob Bauer,\' 41, San Francisco, CA,San Francisco Chronicle, June 19, 1997
    7. ^Sher Music official website, Chuck Sher (Charles D. Sher; born 1947) (proprietor)
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    Download doom 3 resurrection of evil pc iso gameplay. 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.

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    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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    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, or at SendMeMusic

    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

    Titles of artworks in general do not have copyright, and as this site has only the titles and not the content, to the best of our belief this site does not violate anyone\'s copyright.

    The Fake Book Index is Copyright © 1998-2020 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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    The Real Book may refer to a number of compilations of lead sheets for jazz standards. It usually refers to the first volume of a series of books transcribed and collated by Berklee College of Music students during the 1970s.[1]

    The name distinguishes it from widely available fake books, which print only chords and lyrics of standard songs to avoid copyright infringement. The Real Book included melody lines, thus infringing on copyright. Older versions were unlicensed and paid no royalties to copyright holders. In 2004, Hal Leonard published a licensed edition, which paid royalties.

    The Real Book is published in editions to suit B, E, and C (concert pitch) instruments, as well as bass clef and voice editions (\'low\' and \'high\' voice, with lyrics). Each edition is paginated identically.

    History[edit]

    Compositions by Steve Swallow, Paul Bley, and Chick Corea are heavily represented in The Real Book with jazz standards and classic jazz compositions. Those were the songs that were played most in Boston in the early 1970s when the book was written.[1] When Swallow was asked about the origin in February 2018, he said the book was written by students at Berklee who wanted to make money. They asked permission to use some of his songs, and he agreed. Swallow asked Bley and Steve Kuhn if they wanted some of their songs included, and they did; so they all contributed lead sheets. Swallow helped briefly with editing.[2]

    Then I watched these guys finally get the book together. One of them had a beautiful manuscript that subsequently became classic—it\'s called the Real Book font, and it imitates with uncanny accuracy his hand. He went on to be a big-time music copyist in Hollywood.. The irony is that shortly after the book was put out, some other people realized they could photocopy it and sell it themselves, and the two guys who did all the work and put the book together made a lot less money than they had hoped to because there were imitation Real Books out there almost immediately.. The Real Book was imperfect; there were wrong changes throughout it, but it was tremendously more accurate than what existed previously. And also, it was a lot more legible; it was easy to read.\'[2]

    Only the first volume is the original. The two following volumes of The Real Book were produced. Volume 2 is printed in characteristically \'rough\' handwriting and transcription, while the third volume is typeset on a computer. The transcriptions in The Real Book are unlicensed; no royalties are paid to the musicians whose songs appear in the book. Consequently, the book violates copyright and is therefore illegal. In the past, it was usually sold surreptitiously in local music stores, often hidden behind the counter for customers who asked. PDF editions of the book are often available illegally on P2P networks.

    The name is most likely a play on words from the common name for these types of song folios: \'fake book\'. But it could have been influenced by the Boston alternative weekly newspaper, The Real Paper, started by writers of The Phoenix newspaper in Boston after a labor dispute.

    A variety of dates have been attributed to the book. The April 1990 issue of Esquire featured The Real Book in the \'Man at His Best\' column by Mark Roman in an article called \'Clef Notes\'. He stated, \'I don\'t know a jazzman who hasn\'t owned, borrowed, or Xeroxed pages from a Real Book at least once in his career,\' and he quoted John F. Voigt, music librarian at Berklee. \'The Real Book came out around 1971.[3] The only material available in print then was crap.\'

    Another feature surfaced on April 10, 1994, in The New York Times article \'Flying Below the Radar of Copyrights\'. Guitarist Bill Wurtzel was quoted as saying, \'Everyone has one, but no one knows where they come from.\' The writer of the article, Michael Lydon, said, \'I got mine in 1987 from a bassist who lives in Queens and who attended the Berklee School of Music in Boston; many in jazz circles suspect that students there reproduced the first copies of it in the mid-70s.\'[4]

    Pat Metheny claims that while teaching at Berklee College of Music from 1973 to \'74, one of his guitar students and one of Gary Burton\'s vibraphone students (both of whom wish to remain anonymous) invented the idea of assembling the anthology that would form The Real Book.[1]

    Hal Leonard versions[edit]

    In 2004, music publisher Hal Leonard obtained the rights to most of the tunes contained in the original Real Book and published the first legal edition, calling it the Real Book Sixth Edition in tacit acknowledgment of the five previous illegal versions. The cover and binding are identical to the \'old\' Real Book, and the books employ a font similar to the handwritten style of the originals although the new editions are more legible. The other main improvements are that most of the editing mistakes have been corrected and every tune has been licensed and the copyright owners are being paid for the use of their intellectual property.

    One hundred and thirty-seven tunes are missing in the 6th edition that were in the 5th, while 90 new tunes have been added.[5]

    Hal Leonard released The Real Book, Volume II, Second Edition in answer to the Real Book, Volume II. This was followed by The Real Book, Volume III, Second Edition (July 2006), The Real Book, Volume IV (December 2010), The Real Book, Volume V (June 2013), and The Real Book, Volume VI (June 2016). These books contain much of the same material as their counterparts, and in most cases charts from Hal Leonard books are compatible with the Real Book charts. In some cases, compatibility issues occur where corrections have been made to some of the mistakes in the 5th edition charts; in other cases, 6th edition charts may reference changes on better or more authoritative recordings.

    Selected editions[edit]

    \'The
    1. The New Real Book, compiled & edited by Chuck Sher (Charles D. Sher; born 1947) & Sky Evergreen (aka Bob Bauer; Robert E. Bauer; 1956–1997),[6] Sher Music (publisher) (1988)
      1st Edition, C & vocal version OCLC311905162
      Volume I
      Volume II
      Volume III, E♭ISBN978-1-883217-03-7
    2. The Real Book 2nd edition, Hal Leonard (publisher) (2004)
      Volume II OCLC605194191, 60841601
      Volume II, C OCLC213853072
      Volume III OCLC795309725, 787732883, 317729978
      Volume III, EOCLC605194255
    3. The Real Book, 2nd edition, O. Angabe (publisher) (1980) OCLC314155091
    4. The Real Book, Pacific edition, Real Book Press (1980) OCLC9593108
    5. The Real Book, 6th edition (2007) OCLC56846058, 189624769, 750243800

    Note: The New Real Book, also in 3 volumes, published by Sher Music Co.,[7] is another legal and readily available modern alternative. The collection of tunes in it differs from the original Real Book, but this edition offers some of the same songs, in new transcriptions and a different notation.

    Some other music publishers also apply the term Real Book to their own publications — for example, the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music publishes The AB Real Book. Alfred Publishing Co. has three real books.

    See also[edit]

    • Ralph Patt, author of The Vanilla Book of 400 chord progressions for jazz standards
    • Chas. H. Hansen Music Corp., pioneer publisher of legitimate fake books

    References[edit]

    1. ^ abcMetheny, Pat. The Pat Metheny Real Book: C instruments (Artist ed.). Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Hal Leonard. ISBN978-1480350595.
    2. ^ abSchroeder, David (Interviewer) (February 14, 2018). Steve Swallow & John Scofield Interviewed by Dr. David Schroeder, NYU Steinhardt Jazz Studies Director (Motion picture). New York City: NYU Steinhardt Jazz Studies.
    3. ^Man At His Best: Clef Notes, by Mark B. Roman (born 1962), Esquire, April 1990, Vol. 113 ISSN0194-9535
    4. ^Pop Music; Flying Below The Radar Of Copyrights, Michael C. Lydon (born 1942), The New York Times, April 10, 1994
    5. ^\'The Real Book Listening Guide · Differences Between the 5th and 6th Editions\'. archive.org. 9 May 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
    6. ^Obituary: Evergreen, Sky \'Bob Bauer,\' 41, San Francisco, CA,San Francisco Chronicle, June 19, 1997
    7. ^Sher Music official website, Chuck Sher (Charles D. Sher; born 1947) (proprietor)
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