Want a list of the best fake books out there? You need music to play right? Do you have time to transcribe all your favorite jazz recordings and slowly build a library of your own personalized jazz charts?

How can you learn music more quickly without investing hours and hours trying to learn songs of recordings. Enter the fake book! A fake book is sort of a “cheat sheet” collection of jazz songs all in one handy book. Usually each tune has the basic chords for the song, the melody, the basic form written out. This allows musicians to build very quick arrangements of songs and essentially “fake” their own arrangement.

It seems like in the last 10 years the number of fake books on the market has tripled. I think publishers see the increase demand for these books and so they churn them out faster and faster.

Avoiding the Garbage Fake Books Now, some of these books are great. They have the correct chords, harmonizations that jazz musicians would actually play, melodies accurately notated, and the books are easy to read. Many of the fake books are absolutely horrendous though! Poor chord choices, inaccurate melodies, riddled with mistakes, poor line spacing etc.

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Sadly, this also includes some of the more “popular” ones on the market. So, I’d like to do help you guys out and do a quick review and recommendation of my favorite fake books.

We all buys these books and I’d like to make sure you invest your money as wisely as you can 🙂 I own and use all of these. Armed with these books you should be set for a long time on your jazz tune learning journey!

Recommended Fake Books 1. This book is part of the great “Jazz Bible Fake Book Series”.

It features over 200 tunes like Cherokee, Take The A-Train, Moonlight in Vermont, Darn That Dream etc. The series also has many tunes that vocalists tend to call at gigs. Pros: The listed chords changes are excellent. They’re chords that jazz musicians would actually play (unlike most fake books). The tunes listed in there are called on a regular basis as well. Also, all the lines are written in 4 bar phrases. This makes it easy to read and play. Cons: There really aren’t any.

This book is also part of the great “Jazz Bible Fake Book Series”. It also features over 200 tunes but way more focus on the classic 50’s era of jazz. It has tunes like Autumn Leaves, Stella By Starlight,, Beyond The Sea, Cry Me A River etc. Pros: The listed chords changes are excellent. The chords in this book are excellent as well. The tunes listed in there are called on a regular basis as well. Also, all the lines are written in 4 bar phrases.

This makes it easy to read and play. Cons: There really aren’t any major ones. I suppose it would be nice if the fakebooks were spiral bound but I know that would make the books way more expensive then they are.

This book is also part of the great “Jazz Bible Fake Book Series”. It also features over 200 tunes but way more focus on the classic 60’s era of jazz. It has tunes like Giant Steps, All Blues, Black Coffee, etc. Pros: This book tends to feature more compositions by jazz composers as opposed to just standard American Songbook type stuff. For that reason I love it. The listed chords changes are excellent like the other books in the series.

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The lines are written in 4 bar phrases. This makes it easy to read and play. Cons: There really aren’t any major ones. It would have been nice if they had some more avant garde type 60’s tunes but I know the demand for those are pretty low. All in all an excellent fake book.

This is the fake book that everybody seems to have a copy of. It’s almost an industry standard. For many years this book was actually “illegal”. Legend has it that the book started as a pass around at the Berklee College of Music in the ’70’s and then spread from there. It was hard to find for a long time. The publishing rights on the songs were eventually secured though and now it is legal and easily purchased.

Pros: Has a large variety of tunes from the first 40-55 years of jazz. It also features some compositions from more modern jazz composers of the ’70’s. Since almost everybody has this book it’s a good idea to also have it. That way you can refer to the same charts as many other musicians.

Cons: Although most of the tunes in the book are staple tunes that are called all the time there are some in there that are very obscure. Translation: They never get called! Free download cricket 2007. Most of the book is notated well but there are some mistakes in a few tunes. Just be careful and always use your ears 🙂 5. This is another fake book that everybody seems to have a copy of. This would also be considered an industry standard. While the previous fake book was in it’s “illegal” stage publisher Chuck Sher came out with the very useful legal alternative Pros: Also, has a large variety of tunes from the first 40-55 years of jazz.