Jazz songs at 140 BPM
Tempo Tunes has 956 jazz songs with a verified tempo of 140 BPM: swinging, improvising jazz. Here are some of the best known.
140 BPM pushes into workout territory: uptempo rock, dance, and faster hip hop. 140 BPM also lines up with a running cadence of about 140 steps per minute, on the quicker side of an easy jog.
Popular 140 BPM jazz songs

Stompin’ at the Savoy
Nina Simone (1959)

Dallas Blues
Louis Armstrong (2000)

September Song
Ella Fitzgerald (2000)

Chance It
Miles Davis (1952)

Trav'lin Light
Billie Holiday (2002)

Tunji
John Coltrane (1962)

I Remember You
Chet Baker (1955)

London: Part XI
Keith Jarrett (2009)

Cotton Tail
Herbie Hancock (1998)

On My Way to Harlem
Gregory Porter (2012)

Forget the Woman
Tony Bennett (1986)

Brasilia
Chick Corea (2000)

It Might as Well Be Spring
Sarah Vaughan (1995)

Your Soul
Ibrahim Maalouf (2011)

Dinah
Duke Ellington (1961)

Hô-bá-lá-lá
João Gilberto (1959)

Let’s Pretend
Al Jarreau (1984)

'Round Midnight
Bill Evans (1997)
Easy to Love
Charlie Parker (1994)

Lulu’s Back in Town
Thelonious Monk (1964)

I Sold My Heart To the Junkman
Dinah Washington (1948)

Straight on Red
Pat Metheny Group (1983)

It’s Been a Long Long Time
Peggy Lee (1995)
My Sweet
Django Reinhardt (1990)
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