Jazz songs at 118 BPM
Tempo Tunes has 871 jazz songs with a verified tempo of 118 BPM: swinging, improvising jazz. Here are some of the best known.
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Popular 118 BPM jazz songs
Of This I’m Sure
Nina Simone (1964)
Mighty River
Louis Armstrong (1990)
When Your Lover Has Gone
Ella Fitzgerald (1976)
Well You Needn't
Miles Davis Quintet (1961)
Splatch
Miles Davis (1986)
Popsicle Toes
Diana Krall (1999)
Everybody's Laughing
Billie Holiday (2001)
Danny Boy
George Benson (2011)
Saturn
John Coltrane (1974)
Trabalhadores do Brasil
Martinho da Vila
Caravelle
Chet Baker (1987)
The Way You Look Tonight
Keith Jarrett (1986)
Wiggle-Waggle
Herbie Hancock (1969)
Shall We Dance
Tony Bennett (1993)
Armando's Tango
Chick Corea (2003)
That Lucky Old Sun
Sarah Vaughan (1993)
Just Squeeze Me
Duke Ellington (2017)
High Crime
Al Jarreau (1984)
Chasin' the Bird
Charlie Parker (1991)
Why Was I Born
Dinah Washington (2007)
Walkin’
Jamie Cullum (2014)
Slip Away
Pat Metheny Group (1989)
Interval Waltz
Pat Metheny (2012)
I Wanna Be Around
Peggy Lee (1999)
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