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This is funny. You are the very first one I've seen on this forum in 12 years who would be happy with just the chords to jazz standards. This question has come up many, many times before but everybody wants the melody and/or lyrics. Melody and lyrics are copywritten and cannot be included which is why iRealPro only has chords but even they do not produce those chord charts as a company, they're all provided by users on their forum. They're worried about copyright too because they're linking song titles to the chords so they use users to get around that. That sounds sketchy to me if push came to shove and they got busted for copyright violations.

And that is one of the problems with iRealPro, many of their chords are incorrect but it's because they're done by amateur users. I use that app too and find it helpful but still, lots of errors there. You'll find lots of errors in Biab songfiles as well for the same reason. They're done by users, not pros. If you want correct and professional songs with everything correct you have to buy midi files from the well known websites that sell those. Notes Norton is a long time professional gigging musician so I'm pretty sure his Fake Book songfiles are correct as well.

Free or very cheap means you get what you pay for, if you want them correct then that costs money.

When it comes to using actual song titles PG Music won't go that far either because they're also worried about copyright. I'm not a copyright expert but using a classic song title for the name of a different song is a grey area. Imagine if someone came up with a completely original song and called it Hotel California or Thriller. Think their might be a problem with that? Who knows but what small company wants to take that chance? All those classic jazz songs still have valid copyrights and owned by somebody, if not the original artist then their estates or someone else like Sony Music bought them up. If they get sued look at the time and legal costs involved. Maybe they win just on the song title issue, who knows but they don't want to mess with that.

Therefore, in the Biab demo songs there are a ton of standard jazz chord changes but not with the actual song title. They use another title for the demo song. So no, PGM is not about to rename those demo songs with the real titles those chords go with.

What we've all done is what was already said, Google is your friend and you can find them all but it's a bit of work.

Bob