Booker's Waltz is a jazz waltz composed by Booker Little and is one of three adaptations of his classic piece, the third and fastest version. It was recorded on July 16, 1961 for the Prestige Memorial Album, with Eric Dolphy on bass clarinet, Mal Waldron on piano, Richard Davis on bass and Ed Blackwell on drums, and is played in a 3/4 swing at a medium up tempo. The arrangement features two horns playing the melody in octaves and a slightly altered melodic treatment, with no written introduction or ending. Booker Little, a remarkable trumpet player and composer, died at age 23, and the tune appears in other versions named Waltz Of The Demons (1960) and The Grand Valse (1960) as part of his ongoing exploration of the same composition.
