{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Real Life Hits | type = Album | artist = Gary Burton Quartet | cover = Real Life Hits.jpg | alt = | released = March 1985<ref>{{cite web|title=Real Life |url=https://www.ecmrecords.com/shop/143038751135/real-life-hits-gary-burton-quartet |website=ECM }}</ref> | recorded = November 1984 | studio = Tonstudio Bauer<br>Ludwigsburg, W. Germany | venue = | genre = Jazz | length = 50:15 | label = ECM<br>ECM 1293 | producer = Manfred Eicher | chronology = Gary Burton | prev_title = Lyric Suite for Sextet | prev_year = 1983 | next_title = Slide Show | next_year = 1986 }}
'''''Real Life Hits''''' is an album by the Gary Burton Quartet, recorded in November 1984 and released on ECM March the following year.<ref name="ECM discography">[http://www.ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/1200/1293.php ECM discography] accessed September 19, 2011</ref> The quartet features the rhythm section of Makoto Ozone, Steve Swallow and Michael Hyman.
== Reception == {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> | rev2 = ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'' | rev2score = {{Rating|3|4}}<ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=204}}</ref> }} The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated, "The appealing group sound and the spontaneous yet tight ensembles and solos make this a worthwhile acquisition."<ref name="Allmusic">Yanow, S. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/real-life-hits-r151546 Allmusic Review] accessed September 19, 2011</ref>
==Track listing == # "Syndrome" (Carla Bley) – 6:19 # "The Beatles" (John Scofield) – 6:46 # "Fleurette Africaine" (Duke Ellington) – 7:04 # "Ladies in Mercedes" (Steve Swallow) – 6:21 # "Real Life Hits" (Carla Bley) – 8:36 # "I Need You Here" (Makoto Ozone) – 8:46 # "Ivanushka Durachok"{{efn|Ivanushka Durachok is an archetypal Russian Ivan the Fool}} ({{ill|German Lukyanov|ru|Лукьянов, Герман Константинович}}) – 6:23
== Personnel == * Gary Burton – vibraphone * Makoto Ozone – piano * Steve Swallow – bass guitar * Mike Hyman – drums
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Category:ECM Records albums Category:Gary Burton albums Category:Albums produced by Manfred Eicher Category:1985 albums