Jazz songs at 116 BPM
Tempo Tunes has 584 jazz songs with a verified tempo of 116 BPM: swinging, improvising jazz. Here are some of the best known.
116 BPM is the heart of dance music: house, disco, and most of the pop charts live within a couple of clicks of it. It keeps spin warmups and gym floors moving without redlining anyone.
Popular 116 BPM jazz songs
Tomorrow Is My Turn
Nina Simone (1965)
Saint James Infirmary
Louis Armstrong (1997)
Teach Me Tonight
Ella Fitzgerald (1975)
It Never Entered My Mind
Miles Davis Quintet (1959)
Amandla
Miles Davis (1989)
Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby
Diana Krall (1995)
Stormy Weather
Billie Holiday (2003)
Everytime We Say Goodbye
John Coltrane (1961)
Raízes
Martinho da Vila
Don't Explain
Chet Baker (1965)
Sundance
Keith Jarrett (1972)
Pinocchio
Herbie Hancock (1994)
1960 What?
Gregory Porter (2010)
Ain't Misbehavin'
Tony Bennett (1964)
Armando’s Rhumba
Chick Corea (2019)
The Nearness of You
Sarah Vaughan (1995)
Clementine
Duke Ellington (1961)
Bird of Paradise
Charlie Parker (1972)
All Alone
Thelonious Monk (1957)
Don't Come Knockin' At My Door
Dinah Washington (2010)
Don't Forget to Feed the Reindeer
Peggy Lee (1960)
The Kind You Can’t Afford
Madeleine Peyroux (2011)
Please No Squeeza Da Banana
Louis Prima (1973)
Brahms Lullaby
Dave Brubeck (2020)
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