The Chicago Fake Book - Ultimate Jazz & Blues Fake Book for Musicians | Sheet Music for Piano, Guitar & More | Perfect for Performances, Practice & Jam Sessions

I had bought another Chicago fake book before, but it only had maybe 20 or 30 songs. THIS volume though has just about everything you could want. As far as I can tell, it has every song from the debut album up through "Chicago Twenty 1". This means that if you exclude some of the one-off non-album songs that showed up on compilations, B-sides, and cover songs (as on the Xmas album or on Chicago Night & Day Band), you basically have every Chicago song from the 1960s through the 1990s.A few of the low-rating reviewers here seem absolutely clueless as to what this book is. Read the book title. This is NOT a piano book. This is NOT a guitar tablature book. This is NOT a complete score transcript for all instruments. This is what's known to musicians as a "fake book". That means it contains the standard minimum amount of information for a musician to reproduce the song: the chord changes, under which you find the melody transcribed to the standard treble clef notation, under which you find the lyrics, all of which are structured out to match the structure essentially heard in the recording. And all transcribed to standard concert-C, not shifted for clarinet or something. If you have no clue how to read a chord chart or are hopeless without little guitar fretboard diagrams, then you should first learn how to read books like this for musicians before buying them. Anyway, back to the book.Personally, I would have preferred it if the songs were in track order by album, instead of all in alphabetical order. This would make it much easier to follow along multi-song suites like "Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon". I've also been kind of spoiled by the nice, big, easy-to-read style of The Real Book. Still, the material is quite readable, and seems accurate (which is more than I can say for some of the free but painfully dumbed-down or flat out incorrect transcriptions you might stumble across online). There's such a wealth of songs here to make it worth buying for any musician who's a fan of Chicago.