Nica's Dream is a jazz standard composed by Horace Silver in 1954 as a tribute to jazz patroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter. It was first recorded by the Jazz Messengers in 1956, and Silver’s own studio version appears on the Horace-Scope album (1960). The tune, a hard bop classic, features melodic minor harmony with prominent minor-major seventh chords and is a 64-bar AABA composition with a Latin flavored accompaniment in the A sections and a bridge that alternates between backbeat punctuations and four-beat swing. A vocal version was recorded by Feather in 1983 and released on Zanzibar in 1984. It remains one of the great themes in jazz literature and has been covered by many artists.
