Real Books | Fake Books

For more than four decades, Sher Music Co. has set the standard for jazz fake books. Each volume contains hundreds of fully accurate, composer-approved lead sheets for all of the most essential songs in the jazz canon.

From the Real Easy Book series, the only fake books created specifically for classroom instruction, to the celebrated New Real Book series, these volumes have become indispensable resources for working musicians, educators, and music schools around the world.

Accurate, readable, and built for the bandstand, these are the fake books serious musicians return to for a lifetime.

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Cover of 'The New Real Book' by Sher Music Co., with text on a beige herringbone background.

New Real Book: Volume 1

$26.00 $47.00
Cover of 'The New Real Book Volume 2' by Sher Music Co., featuring a multicolored abstract design.

New Real Book: Volume 2

$45.00
Cover of 'The New Real Book Volume 3', published by Sher Music Co., featuring a multicolored abstract design.

New Real Book: Volume 3

$45.00
Cover of 'The Standards Real Book' by Sher Music Co., featuring a decorative marble mosaic with a musical clef symbol in the center.

Standards Real Book

$52.00
Cover of 'The Real Easy Book: Tunes For Beginning Improvisers (Volume 1, 3-Horn Edition)' featuring a photograph of a student jazz ensemble.

Real Easy Book: Tunes For Beginning Improvisors (Volume 1, 3-Horn Edition)

$32.00
Cover of 'The Real Easy Book: Tunes For Intermediate Improvisers (Volume 2)' by Sher Music Co., featuring a photograph of a jazz ensemble with a saxophone player in the foreground and a keyboard player in the background.

Real Easy Book Volume 2: Tunes For Intermediate Improvisers

$34.00
Cover of 'The Real Easy Book: A Short History of Jazz (Volume 3)' by Sher Music Co., featuring illustrations of musical instruments and text.

Real Easy Book Volume 3: A Short History of Jazz

$25.00
Book cover of 'The Real Easy Book Volume 1 Drum Chart Supplement' by Sher Music Co., with a student ensemble with their instruments on a staircase and musical notes in the background.

Real Easy Book - Vol. 1: Drum Chart Supplement

$14.00 $28.00
Book cover of the Latin Real Book by Sher Music Co., featuring a tropical jungle background.

Latin Real Book

$49.99
Cover of 'The European Real Book' featuring a faux classical architectural frame with the title and publisher's name, Sher Music Co.

European Real Book

$40.00
Cover of 'The All-Jazz Real Book' with a fiery backdrop and text overlay, indicating the content is sheet music for jazz instruments.

All-Jazz Real Book

$44.00
Cover of 'The Best of Sher Music Co. Real Books' featuring text that lists various real books such as 'The New Real Book', 'The Digital Real Book', and others, indicating a best-of collection from multiple jazz fake books.

The Best of Sher Music Co. Real Books

$26.00
'The Digital Standards Songbook' by Sher Music Co. book cover, with a marble mosaic treble clef design on a red and pink paisley background.

The Digital Standards Songbook

$28.00
Book cover of 'Jazz Arrangements of Public Domain Songs' by Chuck Israels, with a sketch of a man transcribing music and text about jazz arrangements on a brown background.

Jazz Arrangements of Public Domain Songs

$14.00 $24.00
Cover of 'The World's Greatest Fake Book' by Sher Music Co., with saxophone illustration and list of included composers on a blue and green background.

World's Greatest Fake Book

$40.00
Book cover of 'The Real Cool Book' by Sher Music Co., with a jazz octet playing music and text about 5-horn octet arrangements.

Real Cool Book: 5-Horn Octet Arrangements for Cool Jazz Classics

$88.00
Book cover of 'The Real Intros and Endings Book' by Tony Corman with blue and yellow geometric design elements.

The Real Intros and Endings Book

$18.00 $29.00
Book cover of 'The Latin Real Easy Book' by Sher Music Co., featuring a painting of two musicians playing salsa music instruments.

Latin Real Easy Book

$32.00