Ink jet recording ink

An ink jet recording ink comprising:

• a dye which has a weight average molecular weight of 850 or less and is represented by Formula (1) below;
• a water-soluble organic solvent which has an SP value of 9.6 or more and less than 9.7 and is represented by Formula (2) below;
• and
• water,
• wherein a content of a surfactant is less than 0.1% by mass,
• wherein in Formula (1), R1 represents a hydrogen atom, methyl group, a nitro group, an anilino group, an acetamide group, —O—C6H5, or —O—CH2—C6H5,
• R2 represents a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom,
• R3 represents a monovalent group selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, an amino group, an acetamide group, an azophenyl group, an azonaphthalene group, and -L2-Rb,
• L2 represents a bivalent linking group consisting of one or a combination of two to five selected from the group consisting of —C(═O)—, —C6H4—, —N═N—, —NH—, and —SO2—,
• Rb represents a phenyl group, a naphthyl group, a pyrimidyl group, a triazinyl group, or a quinoxaline group, and
• M+ represents a hydrogen ion, a sodium ion, a potassium ion, a lithium ion, an ammonium ion, or an alkylammonium ion, and
• in Formula (2), R represents an unsubstituted alkyl group having 2 to 6 carbon atoms, and n represents an integer of 1 to 3.