The Unsung Heroes of Sher Music Co.

Folks – Since the beginning there have been amazing people crucial to Sher Music being the high-quality publishing company that we are, who do not see much of the public limelight. Nonetheless, without them we’d be hard pressed to function as we do. In no particular order, they are:

1) Bob Afifi – Bob is our webmaster, which entails dozens of different tasks to keep www.shermusic.com up and running smoothly, to deal with customer questions, get the digital books ready for publication, make sure the email communications with our customers get out every month, and much more. He is super-knowledgeable about tech questions and I can’t overstate his value to our company.

2) Attila Nagy – Attila is our in-house graphics person and is responsible for all our advertising graphics, and many of the graphics in our books, including many of our beautiful book covers. He and I go back many decades, and it is a real boon to Sher Music that he is available to fix minor graphics problems on a moment’s notice, as well as handle more substantial design work.

3) Larry Dunlap – Larry has been our transcriber and musical editor for almost 30 years and our music engraver for the last 20. He’s also my go-to guy for all musical questions. All the fake books from The New Real Book Vol. 3 onward are his work, and I’m incredibly fortunate to have him as a collaborator. The Practice Notebooks of Michael Brecker is almost entirely his doing—and a phenomenal job he did on that landmark publication!

4) Doug Morton – Doug is our tech guru and creator of our spiffy new royalty system. A big help in many respects, as well as a superlative musician.

5) Other important contributors to one book or another include David Demsey, Matt Heister, Rick Margitza, Art Khu, Ian Carey, Chris Volion, Dan Greenblatt, Ken Cook, Rebeca Mauleón, Kendrick Freeman, Gayle Fulton, Bonnie Comerford, Michael Aragon, Drake Bolt, Annalisa Sher, Ben Sher, Jonathan Sher, and many more.

6) Of course, Sher Music wouldn’t exist without the contributions of all the authors of our method books and the composers of the songs in our fake books. They are the meat and potatoes of Sher Music Co.

7) And lastly, my lovely and hard-working wife, Sueann Bettison Sher, is my rock and forever love. She keeps me sane amidst all the ups and downs of keeping Sher Music Co. afloat.

THANKS UPON THANKS TO ONE AND ALL!
— Chuck Sher