ENDEIT

Trombone solo · 1944

Dickie Wells: After Theatre Jump

Key
D♭ major
Tempo
174 BPM MEDIUM UP
Rhythm feel
Swing
Style
Swing
Choruses
1
Form
A8A8B8A8

Dickie Wells's solo on “After Theatre Jump” has 158 notes in 44 seconds (3.6 notes per second), spanning 27 semitones from A2 to C5. The average tempo is 174 BPM with a swing feel. About 41% of the melodic motion is stepwise (one or two semitones).

Notes

158Notes
44sSolo length
3.6Notes per second
A2–C5Range (27 semitones)
41%Stepwise motion

Pitch-class distribution

Most frequent intervals

  • +1 ×30
  • +3 ×19
  • 0 ×18
  • +2 ×13
  • -4 ×12
  • -2 ×11

Changes played over

A1
D♭B♭7
E♭m7A♭7
Fm7B♭m7
E♭m7A♭7
A♭m7D♭7
G♭7B7
Fm7B♭m7
E♭m7A♭7
A2
D♭B♭7
E♭m7A♭7
Fm7B♭m7
E♭m7A♭7
A♭m7D♭7
G♭7B7
Fm7B♭m7
E♭7A♭7
B1
C7
C7
F7
F7
B♭7
B♭7
E♭7
A♭7
A3
D♭B♭7
E♭m7A♭7
Fm7B♭m7
E♭m7A♭7
A♭m7D♭7
G♭7B7
Fm7B♭m7
E♭m7A♭7
I1
N.C.

Record

Record
Quadromania Jazz Edition, Lester Young, Lester's Be-Bop Boogie CD 2 · Membran Music Ltd.. · 2005
Recorded
1944-03-22
Line-up
Lester Young (ts); Buck Clayton (tp); Dickie Wells (tb); Count Basie (p); Freddie Green (g); Rodney Richardson (b); Jo Jones (dr)
Composer
Wells
Solo length
03:42-04:26

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