"If I Were a Bell" is a song from the Frank Loesser show Guys and Dolls. It has become a jazz standard since it was popularized by trumpeter Miles Davis, on the 1956 Prestige album Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet. The Miles Davis Quintet featured tenor saxophone player John Coltrane, alto saxophonist Cannonball Adderly, pianist Red Garland, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Philly Joe Jones. Since then the tune has been performed by countless jazz musicians and is a jam session favorite still. The tune has often been miscredited as a Miles Davis original. Image:FrankLoesser1. ... Ewan McGregor as Sky Masterson in the 2005 London revival of Guys and Dolls Guys And Dolls is a hit 1950 musical. ... Jazz standard refers to a tune that is widely known, performed, and recorded among jazz musicians. ... A trumpeter may be one of several things: A trumpeter is a musician who plays the trumpet. ... Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was one of the most distinguished jazz musicians of the latter half of the 20th century. ... Prestige Records was a record label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock (October 2, 1928–January 14, 2006). ... Relaxin with the Miles Davis Quintet is an album recorded in 1956 by Miles Davis. ... A Yanagisawa tenor sax. ... John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967), nicknamed Trane, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. ... Julian Edwin Cannonball Adderley (September 15, 1928 - August 8, 1975), originally from Tampa, Florida was a jazz saxophonist of the small combo era of the 1950s and 1960s. ... William Red Garland (1923–1984) was an American jazz pianist whose complex block-chord style influenced many forthcoming pianists in the jazz idiom. ... Paul Chambers Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers, Jr. ... Joseph Rudolph (Philly Joe) Jones (July 15, 1923 – August 30, 1985) was an American jazz drummer. ...

In the show, it is sung by the character Sister Sarah, originally performed by Isabel Bigley on Broadway, and memorialized on the original cast album. On a bet, Sky Masterson takes Sarah Brown to Havana to have dinner and gets her very drunk. Sarah's still social barriers fall away and she realizes she is in love with Sky, and he with her. She sings this after they have an eventful dinner but Sky refuses to take advantage of her drunkenness. Isabel Bigley, star of the musical stage on Broadway and London, born in the Bronx, NY, on February 23, 1926, died at age 80 on September 30, 2006. ...