The most romantic jazz ballads, nocturn or blues

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Lightnin' Hopkins Lightinin' - #6 Thinkin''bout an old Friend

Snooks Eaglin New Orleans Street Singer - #16 Come Back Baby

Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane - #6 Functional (solo)

Louis Armstrong meets Oscar Peterson - #5 How Long Has This Been Going ON

Chet Baker in Tokyo - #5 My Funny Valentine

Ben Webster & Associates - #4 Time after Time

Billie Holiday Lady in Satin - #1 I'm a Fool to Want You

Branford Marsalis Trio Jeepy - #2 The Nearness of You

Harry Connick Jr. We are in Love - #6 A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

Sketches of Spain. Miles Davis and Gil Evans.

• "Ming" - World Saxophone Quartet from the "Revue" album - sublimely beautiful ballad. Written by David Murray in honor of his beautiful wife.
• "Naima" - John Coltrane Quartet from "Giant Steps" - Another sublimely gorgeous love ballad, in this case written by John Coltrane for his wife.
• "Idle Moments" - Grant Green from "Idle Moments" - Can't think of another jazz guitar ballad I find more affecting.
• "Autumn Leaves" - from "Somethin' Else" by the Cannonball Adderley Quartet with Miles Davis. Miles' muted trumpet solo in this tune is a masters class in how to play pretty.
• "Afro Blue" - from Oscar Brown Junior's "Sin and Soul" - Ballad singer par excellence.