ENDEIT

Tenor saxophone solo · 1955

Hank Mobley: Lady Bird

Key
C major
Tempo
221 BPM UP
Rhythm feel
Swing
Style
Hardbop
Choruses
6
Form
A16

Hank Mobley's solo on “Lady Bird” has 499 notes in 104 seconds (4.8 notes per second), spanning 29 semitones from A2 to D5. The average tempo is 221 BPM with a swing feel. About 62% of the melodic motion is stepwise (one or two semitones).

Notes

499Notes
104sSolo length
4.8Notes per second
A2–D5Range (29 semitones)
62%Stepwise motion

Pitch-class distribution

Most frequent intervals

  • -2 ×110
  • -1 ×77
  • +1 ×63
  • +2 ×58
  • +3 ×47
  • -3 ×35

Changes played over

A1
Cmaj7
Cmaj7
Fm7
B♭7
Cmaj7
Cmaj7
B♭m7
E♭7
A♭maj7
A♭maj7
Am7
D7
Dm7
G7
Cmaj7E♭maj7
A♭maj7D♭maj7

Record

Record
Quadromania Jazz Edition, Horace Silver, Down Home; CD 4 · Membran Music Ltd. · 2005
Recorded
1955-11-11
Line-up
Kenny Dorham (tp); Hank Mobley (ts); Horace Silver (p); Doug Watkins (b); Art Blakey (dr)
Composer
T.Dameron
Solo length
02:17-04:01

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