Naima is a jazz ballad composed by John Coltrane in 1959, named after his then-wife Juanita Naima Grubbs. Coltrane first recorded it for his 1959 album Giant Steps, which was released in 1960 on Atlantic Records and produced by Nesuhi Ertegün. The piece is a slow, restrained jazz tune that became one of Coltrane’s early well known works and is now a jazz standard. The melody is built on suspended chords over an outside E-flat pedal while inside the channel the chords sit over a B-flat pedal, and the recording features a brief piano solo by Wynton Kelly. The track runs about 4 minutes and 21 seconds. Coltrane recorded Naima several times, and it appears on releases such as The Complete Copenhagen Concert (1961), Live at the Village Vanguard Again! (1966), Afro Blue Impressions (1977), The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings (1997), and Blue World (2019). It remains a staple of the jazz repertoire and has appeared in other media, including the Polish film Ida (2013).
