Jazz Waltz - Notable Jazz Waltzes

Notable Jazz Waltzes

The following were either composed as jazz waltzes, or are frequently played as such.

  • "A Child Is Born" (Thad Jones)
  • "Afro Blue" (Mongo Santamaría, in arrangement by John Coltrane
  • "Alice In Wonderland" (Sammy Fain)
  • "All Blues" (Miles Davis), from the album Kind of Blue, 1959
  • "And We Say Goodbye To The Perfumed Garden" (Big Lil) from John Peel's radio show
  • "Baubles, Bangles, & Beads" (Robert Wright)
  • "Besame Mucho" written by Consuelo Velázquez and played by (Wes Montgomery), 1963
  • "Black Narcissus" (Joe Henderson)
  • "Blues For A Four-String Guitar" (Lou Rawls) from the album Black And Blue And Tobacco Road, 1962
  • "Blue Daniel" (Frank Rosalino)
  • "Bluesette" (Toots Thielemans)
  • "Blue Frenzy" (Frankie Hubbard) from the album Breaking Point, 1964
  • "Dance Cadaverous" (Wayne Shorter) from Speak No Evil, 1965
  • "Delphia" (Freddie Hubbard) from Red Clay, 1970
  • "Effi" (Stanley Cowell) from the Max Roach album Members, Don't Git Weary, 1968
  • "Elsa" (Earl Zinders)
  • "Emily" (Bill Evans)
  • "Footprints" (Wayne Shorter) (debatable whether an actual waltz)
  • "Full House" (Wes Montgomery)
  • "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" (Smokey Robinson)
  • "Grandfather's waltz" (Stan Getz)
  • "Havana Smooth" (Lee Jackson (composer))
  • "Hollandse Nieuwe" (Joe Vanenkhuizen)
  • "How My Heart Sings!" (Bill Evans) from How My Heart Sings!, 1962
  • "Hello Young Lovers" (Wes Montgomery)
  • "The Inch Worm" (Frank Loesser)
  • "It Ain't Necessarily So" (George Gershwin) from the musical Porgy and Bess
  • "Jitterbug Waltz" (Fats Waller)
  • "Ju Ju" (Wayne Shorter)
  • "Last Tango in Paris" (Gato Barbieri)
  • "Little B's Poem" (Bobby Hutcherson)
  • "Little Niles" (Randy Weston)
  • "Lover" (Dave Brubeck), 1955
  • "Mamzelle Zizi" (Dr. John & Donald Harrison) from Funky New Orleans, 2000
  • "Midnite Soul" (Freddie Hubbard) from A Soul Experiment, 1969
  • "My Favorite Things" (associated with John Coltrane)
  • "Night Dreamer" (Wayne Shorter) from Night Dreamer, 1964
  • "Simone" (Frank Foster)
  • "Skating In Central Park" (John Lewis)
  • "Some Day My Prince Will Come" (associated with Miles Davis)
  • "Soul Surge" (Frankie Hubbard)
  • "Summer In Central Park" (Horace Silver)
  • "Sweet Lady" (Monty Alexander)
  • "Tenderly" (Walter Gross)
  • "The Girl Next Door" (Ahmad Jamal) from Ahmad's Blues, 1958
  • "Three Views Of A Secret" (Jaco Pastorius)
  • "Three Wishes (Donald Byrd)
  • "Ugly Beauty" (Thelonious Monk)
  • "Up Jumped Spring" (Freddie Hubbard) from Born To Be Blue, 1981
  • "Valse Hot" (Sonny Rollins)
  • "Valse Triste" (Wayne Shorter) from The Soothsayer, 1965
  • "Very Early" (Bill Evans) from Moon Beams, 1962
  • "Waltz for Debby" (Bill Evans) from New Jazz Conceptions, 1956, and Waltz for Debby, 1961
  • "Waltz New" (Jim Hall) (based on the changes to Someday My Prince Will Come)
  • "West Coast Blues" (Wes Montgomery) from Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery, 1969
  • "Wild Flower" (Wayne Shorter), from Speak No Evil, 1965
  • "Windows" (Chick Corea)

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