The Real Book Project: B
Below are recommended recordings of songs from the Sixth Edition of The Real Book that start with the letter ‘B’. I have chosen recordings that are most similar to what is printed in The Real Book but there may be some differences. Happy Listening!
Song: Beautiful Love
Composer: Victor Young/Wayne King/Egbert Van Alstyne/Haven Gillespie
Artist: Bill Evans Trio
Album: Explorations
Label: Riverside Records
Year: 1961
Song: Beauty and the Beast
Composer: Wayne Shorter
Artist: Wayne Shorter
Album: Native Dancer
Label: CBS
Year: 1975
Song: Bessie’s Blues
Composer: John Coltrane
Artist: John Coltrane
Album: Crescent
Label: Impulse!/ABC
Year: 1964
Song: Bewitched
Composer: Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart
Artist: Ella Fitzgerald
Album: Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Rodgers and Hart Songbook
Label: Verve
Year: 1956
Song: Big Nick
Composer: John Coltrane
Artist: Duke Ellington and John Coltrane
Album: Duke Ellington and John Coltrane
Label: Impulse!
Year: 1963
Song: Black Coffee
Composer: Paul Francis Webster/Sonny Burke
Artist: Sarah Vaughan
Album: After Hours with Sarah Vaughan
Label: Columbia
Year: 1955
Song: Black Diamond
Composer: Milton Sealey
Artist: Roland Kirk Quartet ft. Elvin Jones
Album: Rip, Rig, and Panic
Label: Mercury
Year: 1965
Song: Black Narcissus
Composer: Joe Henderson
Artist: Joe Henderson
Album: Power to the People
Label: Milestone
Year: 1969
Song: Black Nile
Composer: Wayne Shorter
Artist: Wayne Shorter
Album: Night Dreamer
Label: Blue Note
Year: 1964
Song: Black Orpheus
Composer: Luiz Bonfa
Artist: Paul Desmond
Album: Greatest Hits
Label: RCA Victor
Year: 1997
Song: Blue Bossa
Composer: Kenny Dorham
Artist: Joe Henderson
Album: Page One
Label: Blue Note
Year: 1963
Song: Blue in Green
Composer: Miles Davis
Artist: Miles Davis
Album: Kind of Blue
Label: Columbia
Year: 1959
Song: Blue Monk
Composer: Thelonious Monk
Artist: Thelonious Monk Quartet w/ John Coltrane
Album: At Carnegie Hall
Label: Blue Note
Year: 2005
Song: The Blue Room
Composer: Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart
Artist: Ella Fitzgerald
Album: The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Song Books
Label: Verve
Year: 1993
Song: Blue Train
Composer: John Coltrane
Artist: John Coltrane
Album: Blue Train
Label: Blue Note
Year:1958
Song: Blues for Alice
Composer: Charlie Parker
Artist: Charlie Parker
Album: Bird: The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve
Label: Verve
Year: 1990
Song: Bluesette
Composer: Jean Thielemans/Norman Gimbel
Artist: Toots Thielemans
Album: The Whistler and His Guitar
Label: ABC - Paramount
Year: 1964
Song: Body and Soul
Composer: John Green/Edward Heyman/Robert Sour/Frank Eyton
Artist: Ella Fitzgerald
Album: Ella Swings Gently with Nelson
Label: Verve
Year: 1962
Song: Boplicity
Composer: Miles Davis/Gil Evans
Artist: Miles Davis
Album: Birth of the Cool
Label: Capitol
Year: 1957
Song: Birth Size Life
Composer: Pat Metheny
Artist: Pat Metheny Trio
Album: Live
Label: Warner Bros.
Year: 2000
Song: Broadway Blues
Composer: Ornette Coleman
Artist: Ornette Coleman
Album: New York is Now!
Label: Blue Note
Year: 1968
Song: Broadway
Composer: Bill Byrd/Teddy McRae/Henri Woode
Artist: Ahmad Jamal
Album: Cross Country Tour: 1958-1961
Label: Chess
Year: 1998
Song: But Beautiful
Composer: Jimmy Van Heusen/Johnny Burke
Artist: Nat King Cole
Album: The Very Thought of You
Label: Capitol
Year: 1958
Song: Butterfly
Composer: Herbie Hancock/Bennie Maupin
Artist: Herbie Hancock
Album: Thrust
Label: Columbia
Year: 1974
Song: Byrd Like
Composer: Freddie Hubbard
Artist: Freddie Hubbard
Album: Ready for Freddie
Label: Blue Note
Year: 1962
