Jazz waltz

A Jazz waltz is a waltz in jazz style, thus played in a syncopated ³
₄.

Notable jazz waltzes

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

Title	Composer (lyricist)	Year	Recording artist	Notes (album)
"34 Skidoo"	Bill Evans	1962	Bill Evans	How My Heart Sings!
"A Child Is Born"	Thad Jones (Alec Wilder)	1969	Thad Jones & Mel Lewis Big Band	Consummation a.o.
"Afro Blue" in arrangement by John Coltrane	Mongo Santamaría	1959	John Coltrane	Live at Birdland, 1963
"Alice in Wonderland"	Sammy Fain (Bob Hilliard)	1951	The Mellomen with The Jud Conlon Chorus	for Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland
"All Blues"	Miles Davis	1959	Miles Davis	Kind of Blue
"And We Say Goodbye to the Perfumed Garden"	Big Lil	1967	Big Lil	from John Peel's radio show
"Baubles, Bangles, & Beads"	Robert Wright (George Forrest)	1953	Peggy Lee	from the musical Kismet
"Bésame Mucho"	Consuelo Velázquez	1940	Wes Montgomery	Boss Guitar, 1963 (Montgomery's version is a waltz, although the original version is a bolero)
"Black Narcissus"	Joe Henderson	1974	Joe Henderson	Black Narcissus, 1976
"Blues for a Four-String Guitar"	Lou Rawls	1962	Lou Rawls	Black and Blue and Tobacco Road
"Blue Daniel"	Frank Rosalino	1960
"Bluesette"	Toots Thielemans (Norman Gimbel)	1962	Toots Thielemans
"Blue Frenzy"	Freddie Hubbard	1964	Freddie Hubbard	Breaking Point
"Dance Cadaverous"	Wayne Shorter	1965	Wayne Shorter	Speak No Evil
"Delphia"	Freddie Hubbard	1970	Freddie Hubbard	Red Clay
"Effi"	Stanley Cowell	1968	Max Roach	Members, Don't Git Weary
"Elsa"	Earl Zindars	1961	Bill Evans Trio	Explorations
"Emily"	Johnny Mandel (Johnny Mercer)	1966	Bill Evans Trio (and solo)	first rec. solo for Further Conversations with Myself, 1967, Re: Person I Knew, trio rec. from 1974
"Footprints"	Wayne Shorter	1966	Miles Davis Quintet	Miles Smiles (debatable whether an actual waltz)
"Full House"	Wes Montgomery	1962	Wes Montgomery Quintet	Full House
"The Girl Next Door"	Ahmad Jamal	1958	Ahmad Jamal	Ahmad's Blues
"God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"	Smokey Robinson
"Grandfather's Waltz"	Lasse Färnlof, Gene Lees	1964	Stan Getz	Stan Getz & Bill Evans and with João Gilberto on Getz/Gilberto Vol. 2
"Havana Smooth"^[1]	Lee Jackson	1994	Lee Jackson	from the soundtrack of Rise of the Triad
"Hollandse Nieuwe"	Joe Vanenkhuizen
"How My Heart Sings!"	Earl Zindars	1962	Bill Evans	How My Heart Sings!
"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	1942	Fats Waller and His Rhythm	a favourite of Eric Dolphy and David Murray
"JuJu"	Wayne Shorter	1964	Wayne Shorter	JuJu
"Kathy's Waltz"	Dave Brubeck	1959	Dave Brubeck	Time Out
"Last Tango in Paris"	Gato Barbieri	1972	Gato Barbieri
"Little B's Poem"	Bobby Hutcherson	1966	Bobby Hutcherson	Components
"Little Niles"	Randy Weston	1958	Randy Weston	With These Hands...
"Lover"	Dave Brubeck	1955	Dave Brubeck
"Mamzelle Zizi"	Dr. John & Donald Harrison	2000	Dr. John with the Donald Harrison Band	Funky New Orleans
"Midnite Soul"	Freddie Hubbard	1969	Freddie Hubbard	A Soul Experiment
"My Favorite Things"	Richard Rodgers (Oscar Hammerstein II)	1959	John Coltrane	My Favorite Things, 1961. Originally from the musical The Sound of Music
"Night Dreamer"	Wayne Shorter	1964	Wayne Shorter	Night Dreamer
"Simone"	Frank Foster
"Skating in Central Park"	John Lewis	1959	Modern Jazz Quartet	Odds Against Tomorrow
"Some Day My Prince Will Come"	Frank Churchill (Larry Morey)	1937	Miles Davis Quintet	Some Day My Prince Will Come, 1961. Originally from Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
"Soul Surge"	Freddie Hubbard	1967	Freddie Hubbard	Blue Spirits
"Summer in Central Park"	Horace Silver	1973	Horace Silver	In Pursuit of the 27th Man
"Sweet Lady"	Monty Alexander		Monty Alexander
"Tenderly"	Walter Gross
"Three to Get Ready"	Dave Brubeck	1959	Dave Brubeck	Time Out
"Three Views of a Secret"	Jaco Pastorius	1981	Jaco Pastorius	Word of Mouth
"Three Wishes"	Herbie Hancock	1966	Donald Byrd	Free Form
"Ugly Beauty"	Thelonious Monk	1967	Thelonious Monk Quartet	Underground
"Up Jumped Spring"	Freddie Hubbard	1981	Freddie Hubbard	Born to Be Blue
"Valse Hot"	Sonny Rollins	1956	Sonny Rollins Quintet	Sonny Rollins Plus 4
"Valse Triste"	Wayne Shorter	1965	Wayne Shorter	The Soothsayer
"Very Early"	Bill Evans	1962	Bill Evans Trio	Moon Beams
"Waltz for Debby"	Bill Evans	1956	Bill Evans	New Jazz Conceptions, and Waltz for Debby, 1961
"Waltz New"	Jim Hall	1978	Jim Hall	Jim Hall and Red Mitchell, (based on the changes to "Someday My Prince Will Come")
"West Coast Blues"	Wes Montgomery	1960	Wes Montgomery	Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery
"Wild Flower"	Wayne Shorter	1965	Wayne Shorter	Speak No Evil
"Windows"	Chick Corea	1966	Chick Corea	Inner Space, 1973

Other uses

Pop

"A Taste of Honey" (Tom Jones) from his album From The Heart, 1966
"Blessed" (Simon & Garfunkel) from Sounds of Silence, 1966
"Everything's Alright" from Andrew Lloyd Webber's opera Jesus Christ Superstar, 1970
"I Just Don't Understand" (The Beatles) from Live at the BBC
"It's for You" (The Beatles)
"Mirror, Mirror" (The Osmonds) from The Plan, 1973
"My Girl Maria" (Tom Jones), from Help Yourself, 1968
"The Last Waltz" (Engelbert Humperdinck)
"Wives And Lovers" (Burt Bacharach)

Rock and blues rock

"Golden Brown" (The Stranglers), 1981
"Second Movement" (vocal parts) (Deep Purple) from Concerto for Group and Orchestra, 1969
"Here's to the new year" (Slade) from Crackers - The Christmas Party Album, 1986
"She Belongs to Me" (Jake Holmes), from The Above Ground Sound Of Jake Holmes, 1967
"The Way Young Lovers Do" (Van Morrison), from Astral Weeks, 1968
"What's the Use in Trying" (Moneybrother), from To Die Alone, 2006

Folk and electric folk

"Autopsy" (Fairport Convention), from Unhalfbricking, 1968
"Gaea" (Pentangle), from So Early In The Spring, 1989
"Hear My Call" (Pentangle), from The Pentangle, 1968
"In Time" (Pentangle), from Berkeley Community Theatre, May 29, 1970
"Light Flight" (Pentangle), from Basket Of Light, 1968

Progressive and indie rock

"Black Lace" (Frijid Pink) from Defrosted, 1970
"Cressida" (Cressida) from Cressida, 1970
"Digging My Lawn" (Giles, Giles & Fripp) from The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp, 1968
"Hello hello" (Caravan) from Caravan, 1968
"Jazz Waltz #3 in B flat" (The Dears) from End of a Hollywood Bedtime Story, 2000
"Move on Alone" (Jethro Tull) from This Was, 1968
"Poet and Peasant" (Beggars Opera) from Act One, 1974 (partial jazz waltz)
"Once Upon a Hill" (Aardvark) from Aardvark, 1970
"Something Following Me" (Procol Harum) from Procol Harum, 1967
"To 'B'" (Brainchild) from Healing Of The Lunatic Owl, 1970
"To Play Your Little Game" (Cressida) from Cressida, 1970
"Up And Coming" (Blodwyn Pig) from Ahead Rings Out, 1969 (jazz waltz-blues)
"Water Curtain Cave" (Jade Warrior) from Released, 1971 (partial jazz waltz)
"Winter" (Hannibal) from Hannibal, 1971

Psychedelic rock

"An Invitation to Cry" (Saturday's Children) on compilation album Pebbles Vol. 1
"Ascension" (Kahvas Jute) from Wide Open, 1971
"Benedictus" (The Electric Prunes) from Mass In F Minor, 1968
"Cynical Watcher Mr Peep" (The Seeds), 1966
"Deck Five" (Saturday's Children), 1966
"Fly" (Ora) from Ora, 1969
"Gold And Silver" (Quicksilver Messenger Service) from Quicksilver Messenger Service, 1968
"Huautla" (Canned Heat) from Hallelujah, 1969
"I Want You Back Again" (The Zombies) from Zombie Heaven, 1967
"Jabberwock" (Boeing Duveen and the Beautiful Soup) on compilation album Rubble Vol. 8
"Judge With a Bomb" (The Seeds)
"Shaman's Blues" (The Doors) from The Soft Parade, 1968
"Soul Sync" (The Sun) on compilation album Psychedelic Archaeology Vol. 6
"Sonny Goode Street" (Donovan)
"Stephanie Knows Who" (The Move) from Shazam, 1970
"Suburban Lament" (Leyne Martine Jr) on compilation album Psychedelic Archaeology Vol. 1
"The Garden Is Open" (The Fugs) from Tenderness Junction, 1967
"Tube" (The Psycheground Group), 1971
"White Panther" (Arcesua), 1968, on compilation album - Love, Peace and Poetry: American Psychedelic Bands
"War lord" (The Shadows), 1965
"Wintertime Love" (The Doors) from Waiting For The Sun, 1968

Argentinian progressive rock

"Aventura en el arbol" (Aquelarre) from Aquelarre, 1972
"El Viaje De Anabelas" (Bubu) from Anabelas, 1978

Danish pop

"Dansevise" (Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann) won the Eurovision Song Contest 1963

Finnish progressive rock

"Hamarapuolella" (Alamaailman Vasarat) from Kaarmelautakunta, 2003

French jazz pop

"Boom Boom" (France Gall), 1966. Originally a Danish song called "Say Boom Boom" composed by Poul Reinau and first recorded by his wife Lise.
"Les Oubliettes" (Serge Gainsbourg), c. 1961-63
"Les Yeux Bleu" (France Gall), 1967
"Pense à Moi" (France Gall), 1963
"Wake me at five" (Serge Gainsbourg) from the film Strip Tease, 1963

German progressive rock

"Alabaster Keaton" (Aera) from Hand und Fuss, 1976 (jazz waltz/fusion)
"Difference" (Häx Cel) from Zwai, 1972
"Hallelujah" (Hallelujah) from Hallelujah Babe, 1971
"Hysterical" (My Solid Ground) from SWF, 1973
"Mosaik" (Joy Unlimited), from Reflektions, 1973
"Music" (Häx Cel) from Zwai, 1972
"Bosco Biati Weiß Alles" (Brainstorm), from Smile A While, 1973
"There Was a Time" (Brainstorm), from Last Smile, 1974

Italian jazz rock

"Valzer per Domani" (Arti e Mestieri) from Giro Di Valzer per Domani, 1975
"Dimensione Terra" (Arti e Mestieri) from Giro Di Valzer per Domani, 1975

Japanese smooth jazz

"Night Waltz" (Keiko Matsui), 1991

Norwegian pop and folk pop

"Intet er nytt under solen" (Åse Kleveland), Norwegian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1966
"It's just a game" (Bendik Singers), Norwegian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1973

Portuguese folk jazz

"Goa" (Rão Kyao), 1979
"Porto Interior" (Rão Kyao), 2008

Portuguese jazz pop

"Amar pelos dois" (Luísa Sobral), Portuguese (winning) entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017

Romanian rock

"Într-un cer violet" (Sfinx), 1984

Swedish jazz pop

"Att angöra en brygga" (Monica Zetterlund) from the film Att angöra en brygga, 1965
"Bedårande sommarvals" ("Bluesette") (Monica Zetterlund) from Monica Zetterlund sjunger Olle Adolphson, 1976
"Den sista valsen" ("The Last Waltz") (Svante Thuresson), 1967
"En visa om ett rosenblad" (Cornelis Vreeswijk) from Poem, ballader och lite blues, 1966
"En snäcka i sanden" (Alice Babs)
"Farfars vals" (Monica Zetterlund) from Ohh! Monica,1965
"Hajar'u de' då, Jack" (Cornelis Vreeswijk) from Poem, ballader och lite blues, 1970
"Har du nån'sin hört någon spela jazz på en elektrisk flöjt" (Monica Zetterlund)
"Mer än vänskap" (Alice Babs) from Illusion
"I New York" ("Take Five") (Monica Zetterlund) from Ahh! Monica, 1962
"Jag tror att jag är kär i dig, Maria" ("My Girl Maria") (Svante Thuresson), 1964
"Leva mitt liv" (Svante Thuresson), 1968
"Nygammal vals" (Svante Thuresson & Lill Lindfors), Swedish entry in the European Song Contest, 1966
"Pense à moi" (instrumental version) (The Spotnicks), 1964
"Telegram för fullmånen" (Cornelis Vreeswijk) from Grimascher och telegram, 1966
"Ångbåtsblues" (Cornelis Vreeswijk) from Grimascher och telegram, 1966

Swedish psychedelic and alternative rock

"Blå vardag" (Atlas) from Blå vardag, 1979
"Canada lumberyard" (Hansson & Karlsson) from Hansson & Karlsson, 1979
"February" (Hansson & Karlsson) from Hansson & Karlsson, 1967
"Här kommer natten" (Pugh Rogefeldt) from Ja, dä ä dä, 1969
"Space with in" (Hansson & Karlsson) from Man at the moon, 1969
"Peace on earth" (Hansson & Karlsson) from Man at the moon, 1969

Swedish hip hop

"A-kasseblues revisited" (Movits!) from This Is Swedish Hip Hop Evolution, 2010

References

↑ Havana Smooth

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