While both of these complaints are true to some extent, I tend to endorse the more moderate view that fake books and Real Books can be helpful in practice and on gigs, but shouldn't necessarily be ...

Back in the 1970s, a handful of students at Berkeley College of Music in Boston, decided they had had enough of the hand-cobbled musical resources at their disposal. Those resources were known as ...

Would you like to find a treasure chest of new, genius-level jazz music? Here's how. Sher Music Co. has a new big jazz fake book out, The European Real Book, featuring tunes by all of Europe's ...