The AB Real Book is a unique jazz resource.  It is an exciting compilation for all jazz musicians but is specially conceived for less experienced players.  It contains lead sheets for a hundred tunes together with specially commissioned arrangements, including those for Grade 4 or 5 exams for jazz clarinet, sax (alto/tenor), trumpet and trombone.

• an impressive range of jazz styles, from New Orleans to contemporary
• all tunes suitable for less experienced players, with pitch range, chords and technical level carefully considered
• tunes in their most commonly played keys, with reliable melodies and chord changes
• arrangements – by jazz arrangers – that include sections for improvised solos, with helpful guideline pitches
• arrangements included on the syllabus have ‘minus-one’ backing-tracks, available on CD
• written-out piano accompaniments and individual lead sheets available
• a resource for bands and individuals, this book comes in B flat, E flat, C Treble-Clef and C Bass-Clef editions

• 74 Miles Away Joe Zawinul
• A Walk in the Park Pete Hurt
• All Blues Miles Davis
• Almost Like Being In Love Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe
• At A Georgia Camp Meeting Kerry Mills
• At the Mambo Inn Grace Sampson, Bobby Woodlen, Mario Bauza
• Basin Street Blues Spencer Williams
• Beale Street Blues W. C. Handy
• Bessie's Blues John Coltrane
• Blue ‘n' Boogie Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli
• Blue Daniel Frank Rosolino
• Blue Room Richard Rogers, Lorenz Hart
• Blue Samba Lee Konitz
• Blues Connotation Ornette Coleman
• Blues For Wood Woody Shaw, Ronald Mathews
• Blues March Benny Golson
• Brazilian Beat Barney Kessel
• Broadway Bill Bird, Teddy McRae, Henri Woode
• Broken Wing Richie Beirach
• Cantaloupe Island Herbie Hancock
• Caravan Duke Ellington, Juan Tizol, Irving Mills
• Charleston James P. Johnson, Cecil Mack
• A Child Is Born Thad Jones, Alec Wilder
• Corner Pocket Freddie Green
• Dearly Beloved Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer
• Dedication To Thomas Mapfumo Don Cherry
• Diga Diga Doo Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh
• El Gaucho Wayne Shorter
• Entering Jan Garbarek
• Five Spot After Dark Benny Golson
• Flood Warning Mark Nightingale
• For Jan Kenny Wheeler, Norma Winstone
• Fotografia Antonio Carlos Jobim
• The Fourth Man Jim Clarke
• Fraz and Em Nikki Iles
• Fungii Mama Blue Mitchell
• Gaviota Clare Fischer
• Going Home Mark Lockheart
• Gotcha (Theme from Starsky & Hutch)Tom Scott
• Gotta Dance Jimmy Giuffre
• Greens Huw Warren
• Hackensack Theolonius Monk
• Heavy Plant Crossing Pete Churchill
• Homeboyz Bheki Mseleku
• Icarus Ralph Towner
• In A Mellow Tone Duke Ellington
• Introduction To No Particular Song Kenny Wheeler
• It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) Duke Ellington, Irving Mills
• Jive Hoot Bob Brookmeyer
• Jive Samba Philip Flood
• Keepin' in The Groove Bud Powell
• Kelly Blue Wynton Kelly
• A Laugh For Rory Rahsaan Roland Kirk
• Limehouse Blues Philip Braham
• Little Jazz Roy Eldridge, Buster Harding
• Lucky Rhumba Stan Sulzmann
• Mandela Abdullah Ibrahim
• Melody for Candy Malcolm Earle Smith
• Mood Indigo Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard, Irving Mills
• The Mountain Abdullah Ibrahim
• Mr P.C John Coltrane
• My Man's Gone Now George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Dubose Heyward, Dorothy Heyward
• My Ship Kurt Weill, Ira Gershwin
• A Night in Tunisia Dizzy Gillespie
• Nostalgia In Times Square Charles Mingus
• Nutty Theolonius Monk
• Odessa Arthur Blythe
• Ory's Creole Trombone Kid Ory
• Papo Furado Hermeto Pascoal
• Perdido Ervin Drake, Harry Lenk, Juan Tizol
• Phase Dance Pat Metheny
• Red Top Lionel Hampton, Ken Kynard
• Rockin' in Rhythm Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Harry Carney
• A Little Bit Sad Milcho Leviev
• The Samba Dancer Paul Jayasinha
• Samba de Orfeu Luis Bonfa, Antonio Maria
• Sandu Clifford Brown
• Saturday Night In The Cosmos Frank Dean, Don Pullen
• The Sidewinder Lee Morgan
• Sing, Sing, Sing Louis Prima
• Small World Martin Speake
• Stars Fell on Alabama Frank Perkins, Mitchell Parish
• Straight, No Chaser Theolonius Monk
• Such Sweet Thunder Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn
• Sugar Stanley Turrentine
• Sugar Loaf Mountain George Duke
• Tenderly Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence
• Tenor Madness Sonny Rollins
• There Is No Greater Love Isham Jones, Marty Symes
• Time Dis-Played Andreas Panayi
• Tin Roof Blues Walter Melrose, New Orleans Rhythm Kings
• To Dudu Annie Whitehead
• The Twitch Duke Ellington arr. Liam Noble
• Vignette Gary Peacock
• Visions Mark Bassey
• Walkin'Richard Carpenter
• The Wedding Abdullah Ibrahim
• What Is This Thing Called Love? Cole Porter
• The Mike Hall Window Gunther Kuermayr
• Winin' Boy Blues Jelly Roll Morton

Recorded examples, together with the backing tracks and full performances of the set tunes, are available on CD by instrument and Grade.