The Real Book, Volume I - 6th Edition

(Fake Book). The Real Book — Sixth Edition — C Edition comes with hundreds of songs and a whole lot of history. Dating back to the 1940s, jazz musicians used Fake Books for their nightly gigs. These Fake Books contained basic melodies or chords—the cliff notes of full compositions—enough for musicians to "fake" their way through a tune. Although popular, these books were illegally produced and distributed. In the 1970s, two Berklee students put together The Real Book, a more organized versi...