The Best of Sher Music Co. Real Books

by Sher Music Co.


This is a great and useful book. You'll be glad you own it!”
— Mark Levine


Selected from:

  • The New Real Books, Vol.1-3
  • The Standards Real Book
  • The Real Easy Books, Vol. 1-3
  • The Latin Real Book
  • The All-Jazz Real Book
  • The World’s Greatest Fake Book
  • The Digital Real Book

Now finally there's a collection of some of the best-known songs from Sher Music Co. world-famous fake books!

Over a hundred completely accurate charts of essential tunes in the jazz canon—invaluable for gigs, rehearsals or jam sessions.

Includes classic tunes by Miles, Trane, Bird, Bill Evans, Duke Ellington, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Horace Silver, Thelonious Monk and many more!

Spiral-bound, 201 pages.

STANDARDS & BOSSA NOVAS

  • Angel Eyes
  • Beautiful Love
  • Blame It On My Youth
  • Born To Be Blue
  • Chega De Saudade
  • Day By Day
  • Do Nothing ‘Til You Hear From Me
  • Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
  • Favela
  • I Should Care
  • It’s The Talk Of The Town
  • Look To The Sky
  • The Masquerade Is Over
  • The Midnight Sun
  • Moonlight In Vermont
  • Nature Boy
  • Once I Loved
  • Perdido
  • Satin Doll
  • Shiny Stockings
  • Someone To Light Up My Life
  • Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most
  • There Is No Greater Love
  • There Will Never Be Another You
  • This Is New
  • Three Little Words
  • Triste
  • Wave
  • We’ll Be Together Again

BEBOP & CLASSIC JAZZ

  • Along Came Betty
  • Anthropology
  • Bags’ Groove
  • Bebop Lives
  • Bernie’s Tune
  • Bessie’s Blues
  • Big P
  • Blues For Alice
  • A Child Is Born
  • Dear Old Stockholm
  • Django
  • Eighty One
  • Elsa
  • Farmer’s Market
  • Freedom Jazz Dance
  • Giant Steps
  • Groove Merchant
  • Hi-Fly
  • How My Heart Sings
  • I Mean You
  • Impressions
  • In Your Own Sweet Way
  • Jeannine
  • Joshua
  • Killer Joe
  • Monk’s Mood
  • Mr. P.C.
  • Naima
  • Ornithology
  • Peace
  • Pursuance
  • Road Song
  • Room 608
  • Ruby, My Dear
  • Scrapple From The Apple
  • Seven Steps To Heaven
  • Song For My Father
  • Stablemates
  • Strollin’
  • Teaneck
  • Unit Seven
  • Up Jumped Spring
  • Very Early
  • Walkin’
  • Waltz For Debby
  • Whisper Not
  • Yardbird Suite
  • You Know I Care

CONTEMPORARY JAZZ

  • Birdland
  • Bolivia
  • Broken Wing
  • Cold Duck Time
  • Falling Grace
  • Fantasy In D
  • Forest Flower
  • Half Moon Lane
  • I’ll Catch You
  • I’ll Take Les
  • La Samba
  • Leaving
  • Little Sunflower
  • Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
  • No Me Esqueca
  • Nothing Personal
  • The Peacocks
  • Pools
  • Quiet Now
  • A Remark You Made
  • Sail Away
  • Sambadouro
  • Sugar
  • This Masquerade
  • To Wisdom The Prize
  • Wabash III

INDEX OF TUNES