KN_Fan -

I hear what you are saying. I also bought that Hal Lenoard Ultimate Fake book with 1200 songs and hated it. The chord progressions were funky and I was unhappy with the song selections. That's my fault though, because I didn't check the links that had the complete song list.

I just bought the Hal Leonard Real Jazz Standards Fake Book and LOVE it. The chord progressions make sense and it seems to cover most of the popular jazz standards (it has 240 of them). I highly recommend this book. There's another one out there called the Real Little Ultimate Jazz Fake Book or something like that, and it has 600 tunes but I didn't like the reviews I read about it.

There's nothing more I hate than a fake book song where my own rendition sounds better. Then again, I really butcher songs so I'm not sure what that means. (I'm weird though - I love it when after I finish a song somebody comes up to me and says "What was that last song?" and I say "It was Misty".)