The Waiting Game (Tina Brooks album)

{{Infobox album

| name = The Waiting Game

| type = studio

| artist = Tina Brooks

| cover = waiting_game.jpg

| alt =

| released = October 8, 1999 (Japan)
2002 (US)

| recorded = March 2, 1961

| venue =

| studio = Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

| genre = Jazz

| length = 39:44

| label = Blue Note
Blue Note 40536

| producer = Alfred Lion

| prev_title = Back to the Tracks

| prev_year = 1960

| next_title =

| next_year =

}}

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = Allmusic

|rev1score = {{rating|4|5}}[http://www.allmusic.com/album/r573004 Allmusic Review]

|rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

|rev2score = {{Rating|3|4}} {{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=175}}

| rev3 = Tom Hull

| rev3Score = A−{{cite web|last=Hull|first=Tom|author-link=Tom Hull (critic)|date=November 2013|url=http://www.tomhull.com/ocston/arch/cg/cg13-11.php|title=Recycled Goods (#114)|work=A Consumer Guide to the Trailing Edge|publisher=Tom Hull|accessdate=June 20, 2020}}

}}

The Waiting Game is an album recorded by hard-bop tenor saxophonist Tina Brooks, recorded on March 2, 1961 for Blue Note, but not released as a single album until 1999. It features performances by Brooks, Johnny Coles, Kenny Drew, Wilbur Ware and Philly Joe Jones. It was Brooks last recording as leader.