The Real Book Project: E

Below are recommended recordings of songs from the Sixth Edition of The Real Book that start with the letter ‘E’. 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: Easter Parade

Composer: Irving Berlin

Artist: Original Broadway Cast Recordings

Album: Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn

Label: Ghostlight

Year: 2017

Song: Easy Living

Composer: Leo Robin/Ralph Rainger

Artist: Chet Baker

Album: Jazz ‘Round Midnight

Label: Verve

Year: 1990

Song: Easy to Love (You’d Be So Easy to Love)

Composer: Cole Porter

Artist: Ella Fitzgerald

Album: Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook

Label: Verve

Year: 1956

Song: Ecclusiatics

Composer: Charles Mingus

Artist: Charles Mingus

Album: Oh Yeah

Label: Atlantic

Year: 1962

Song: Eighty-One

Composer: Miles Davis/Ronald Carter

Artist: Miles Davis

Album: E.S.P.

Label: Columbia

Year: 1965

Song: El Gaucho

Composer: Wayne Shorter

Artist: Wayne Shorter

Album: Adam’s Apple

Label: Blue Note

Year: 1966

Song: Epistrophy

Composer: Thelonious Monk/Kenny Clarke

Artist: Thelonious Monk

Album: It’s Monk Time

Label: Columbia

Year: 1964

Song: Equinox

Composer: John Coltrane

Artist: John Coltrane

Album: Coltrane’s Sound

Label: Atlantic

Year: 1964

Song: Equipoise

Composer: Stanley Cowell

Artist: Stanley Cowell

Album: Equipoise

Label: Galaxy

Year: 1979

Song: E.S.P.

Composer: Wayne Shorter

Artist: Miles Davis

Album: E.S.P.

Label: Columbia

Year: 1965