ENDEIT

Tenor saxophone solo · 1950

Coleman Hawkins: My Blue Heaven

Key
E♭ major
Tempo
132 BPM MEDIUM
Rhythm feel
Swing
Style
Swing
Choruses
1
Form
A8A8B8A8

Coleman Hawkins's solo on “My Blue Heaven” has 207 notes in 58 seconds (3.6 notes per second), spanning 22 semitones from E3 to D5. The average tempo is 132 BPM with a swing feel. About 62% of the melodic motion is stepwise (one or two semitones).

Notes

207Notes
58sSolo length
3.6Notes per second
E3–D5Range (22 semitones)
62%Stepwise motion

Pitch-class distribution

Most frequent intervals

  • +1 ×34
  • -2 ×34
  • +2 ×31
  • -1 ×28
  • -3 ×19
  • +3 ×12

Changes played over

A1
E♭
E♭
E♭D7D♭7
C7
F7
B♭7
Gm7G♭7
Fm7B♭7
A2
E♭
E♭
E♭D7D♭7
C7
F7
B♭7
E♭
E♭7E♭+7
B1
A♭
C7
Fm
Fm
B♭7
B♭7
E♭Edim
Fm7B♭7
A3
E♭
E♭
E♭D7D♭7
C7
F7
B♭7
E♭A♭7
E♭N.C.

Record

Record
Quadromania Jazz Edition, Coleman Hawkins, Dear Old Southland, CD 3 · Membran Music Ltd. · 2005
Recorded
1950
Line-up
Rex Stewart (cor); Tyree Glenn (tb); Coleman Hawkins (ts); Claude Hopkins (p); Billy Bauer (g); Arvell Shaw (b); Cozy Cole (dr)
Composer
Whiting, Donaldson
Solo length
00:58-01:58

Source: Weimar Jazz Database, Jazzomat Research Project (HfM Weimar), ODbL 1.0.