Tenor saxophone solo · 1950

Coleman Hawkins: Perdido

Key: B♭ major
Tempo: 178 BPM MEDIUM UP
Rhythm feel: Swing
Style: Swing
Choruses: 2
Form: A8A8B8A8

Coleman Hawkins's solo on “Perdido” has 468 notes in 89 seconds (5.3 notes per second), spanning 31 semitones from Bb2 to F5. The average tempo is 178 BPM with a swing feel. About 59% of the melodic motion is stepwise (one or two semitones).

Notes

468Notes

89sSolo length

5.3Notes per second

Bb2–F5Range (31 semitones)

59%Stepwise motion

Pitch-class distribution

C♯

E♭

F♯

A♭

B♭

Most frequent intervals

-1 ×84
-2 ×81
+1 ×69
+3 ×43
+2 ×42
-3 ×39

Changes played over

C^m7

F⁷

B♭⁶

D^m7G⁷

C^m7

F⁷

B♭⁶

D^m7G⁷

C^m7

F⁷

B♭⁶

D^m7G⁷

C^m7

F⁷

B♭⁶

D⁷

G⁷⁹

G⁺⁷

C⁷

F⁷

C^m7

F⁷

B♭⁶

D^m7G⁷

C^m7

F⁷

B♭⁶

D^m7G⁷

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: Tizol
Solo length: 00:51-02:21

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