hi, what is the best fake book out there? can anyone recommend? thanks
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the most used fake book at jam sessions is called "the realbook," but it is produced illegally.  so you have to no someone to get a hold of it.  you can also find it online some places if you want to print the whole thing off yourself.  this book is also notorious for the amount of errors

hal leonard recently put out a book with the same name and cover, but it doesn't have all the same tunes.  i think it is pretty good nonetheless.

chuck sher's "the new realbook, vol. 1" has a lot of really common jam session tunes, too.
right its not always a question of which ones are the best (the chuck sher legal ones are unquestionalby much bettet done than the illegal ones)  but a question of having the one that everyone else is using.
everyone else has real book  1.  it was like that thirty years ago when i got started it is still like that now.  what is different now is that everybody has other books too.  thirty years ago that was the only book people brought to gigs.  when you call of a tune these days you best notify the other musicians whether you will be playing the real book changes or the right changes.  most really good players know both
sets of changes.  it is a common experience amongst growing jazz players to memorize all the real  book changes, and then at some point in your carrer realize you have to learn the and memorize the correct changes as well.   one way to obtain real book is to try to be friendly  to musicians you see using one on  gig.  buying them a drink
is  a good idea.  then ask them where they bought theres.  you have to make them comfortable with the fact that you are not some copyright gestapo before they will tell you.  buying them a drink will make
so the average musician will not care even  if you are... a drink could buy you their sister if you wanted her.
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