Candlelights (song)

"Candlelights" is a 1930 jazz composition for solo piano by cornetist Bix Beiderbecke.

It was the second in the series of four piano works which Bix Beiderbecke composed during his career.

Jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli also recorded a guitar transcription of it in 1986 on his album Solo Flight.

In 2020, Juliet Kurtzman and Pete Malinverni recorded it as a duo for violin and piano on the album Candlelight: Love in the Time of Cholera.

"Candlelights" has been recorded by Jess Stacy,[5] Bunny Berigan, Bryan Wright, Geoff Muldaur's Futuristic Ensemble, Paul Mertz, Ralph Sutton, Oscar Pettiford with Tom Talbert, Tiger Dixie Band, Dick Hyman, Mike Polad, Joseph Smith, Bucky Pizzarelli, Patrick Artero, and Kenny Werner.

1930 sheet music cover, Robbins Music, New York.
1939 Commodore 78 release by Jess Stacy, 517A, Classics in Swing series.