Bob James

The entries below are works composed by the subject, as the institutional registers catalogue them; later performances and commercial recordings of the same music are listed separately. They belong to a run of 96 titles in all, from 1974 to 1974.

94 further compositions are catalogued under James's name without a date the collections agree on, which is why they are set apart from the dated run rather than placed in it. A selection is set out below and the complete run may be opened beneath it. Black Is the Color. Concerto for 3 harpsichords, strings & continuo in D minor, BWV 1063 — 3 catalogued parts. Nights Are Forever Without You.

These are published sound issues catalogued under the name. Most postdate the works they carry, and an issue is never counted here as a work of composition. 18 issues carry dates between 1963 and 2020. The run opens with Bold Conceptions and closes with Once Upon a Time – The Lost 1965 New York Studio Sessions. The 1970s are the densest part of the run, with 8 titles, and that concentration is a fact about what the registers have catalogued rather than a judgement on the work itself.

The discography assembled here shows how James's work has been published in sound, not what James made. 64 sound issues are catalogued, carrying dates from 1974 to 2025. An issue is a published recording, distinct from the composition it carries, from a printed score of that composition and from any single performance of it; none of the entries below is counted in the catalogue of compositions above, and several of them carry the same work in different readings. The 1980s are the densest decade of publication, with 14 issues. The performers and issuing labels are as the discographic register states them; where it names no performer the article names none.

An authority file is a statement of identity, not a source of facts: it tells a reader that the James named here is the same person the register catalogues, and it is what allows the material above to be gathered under one heading rather than several.