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Tenor saxophone solo · 1945

Don Byas: Be-Bop

Key
F minor
Tempo
289 BPM UP
Rhythm feel
Swing
Style
Bebop
Choruses
2
Form
A8A8B16

Don Byas's solo on “Be-Bop” has 336 notes in 53 seconds (6.4 notes per second), spanning 28 semitones from C#3 to F5. The average tempo is 289 BPM with a swing feel. About 62% of the melodic motion is stepwise (one or two semitones).

Notes

336Notes
53sSolo length
6.4Notes per second
C#3–F5Range (28 semitones)
62%Stepwise motion

Pitch-class distribution

Most frequent intervals

  • +1 ×68
  • -1 ×64
  • -2 ×47
  • +2 ×28
  • +3 ×28
  • -3 ×24

Changes played over

A1
FmGm7♭5
Fm/A♭B♭m6
Fm/C
Gm7♭5C7
FmGm7♭5
Fm/A♭B♭m6
Fm/C
Gm7♭5Fm
A2
Fm7Gm7♭5
Fm/A♭B♭m6
Fm/C
Gm7♭5C7
FmGm7♭5
Fm/A♭B♭m6
Fm/C
Gm7♭5Fm
B1
Fm7
B♭79♯
E♭maj7
E♭maj7
E♭m7
A♭79♯
D♭maj7
Gm7♭5C79♭
A3
Fm7Gm7♭5
Fm/A♭B♭m6
Fm/C
Gm7♭5C7
FmGm7♭5
Fm/A♭B♭m6
Fm/C
C7Fm

Record

Record
Jazz Gallery, Dizzy Gillespie, CD 1 · BMG/Makin' Friends records · 1994
Recorded
1945-01-09
Line-up
Dizzy Gillespie (tp); Trummy Young (tb); Don Byas (ts); Clyde Hart (p); Oscar Pettiford (b); Shelly Mane (dr)
Composer
Gillespie
Solo length
00:35-01:28

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