El Gaucho is an instrumental jazz composition written by Wayne Shorter. It was first recorded on February 24, 1966, at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, with Shorter on tenor saxophone, Herbie Hancock on piano, Reggie Workman on bass and Joe Chambers on drums. The recording was produced by Alfred Lion and first appeared as track A3 on the Blue Note album Adam's Apple, released in 1967, where it runs about 6:30. The piece is in the key of F. Later versions include recordings by Kirk Lightsey and Harold Danko (1983), Eddie Henderson and Laurent De Wilde (1990), the Rachel Z Trio (2000), Stephen Riley (2010) and the David Liebman Big Band (2014). The album has received strong retrospective reviews.
