Top 10 Instrumental Ballad Performances


This was another tough one to narrow down to only 10.
  1. Thelonious Monk: "Monk's Mood" from Thelonious Himself
  2. Dexter Gordon: "Don't Explain" from A Swingin' Affair
  3. Wayne Shorter: "Infant Eyes" from Speak No Evil
  4. Coleman Hawkins: "Body and Soul," reissued on various collections
  5. Cecil Taylor: "This Nearly Was Mine" from World of Cecil Taylor
  6. Bill Evans: "Danny Boy" from Time Remembered
  7. Charles Mingus: "Self Portrait in Three Colors" from Mingus Ah Um
  8. Sonny Rollins: "You Don't Know What Love Is" from Saxophone Colossus
  9. Miles Davis: "Round Midnight" from Round About Midnight
  10. Art Blakey (featuring Freddie Hubbard): "Blue Moon" from Three Blind Mice