Nica's Tempo is the most common latter-day title of an album by the Gigi Gryce Orchestra and Quartet, recorded and first released in late 1955.

Furthermore, the lineup is Gryce plus the same musicians that had recorded a 10" LP as the Thelonious Monk Trio a year earlier (Thelonious Monk Plays), making this arguably a Monk/Gryce quartet, playing under Gryce's name for contractual reasons.

The album was originally issued in late 1955[7] (Signal S 1201) in packaging that makes its title difficult to summarize.

[8] The title track is a reference to Nica de Koenigswarter (born Kathleen Annie Pannonica Rothschild) a.k.a.

Tracks 1, 2, 4, 6: Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey, October 22, 1955 Tracks 3, 5: Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey, October 22, 1955 Tracks 7–10: Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey, October 15, 1955[9]