Trumpet solo · 1941

Henry Allen: Baby Won't You Please Come Home

Key: B♭ major
Tempo: 212 BPM UP
Rhythm feel: Twobeat
Style: Traditional
Choruses: 2
Form: A8B8

Henry Allen's solo on “Baby Won't You Please Come Home” has 156 notes in 42 seconds (3.7 notes per second), spanning 26 semitones from G3 to A5. The average tempo is 212 BPM with a twobeat feel. About 58% of the melodic motion is stepwise (one or two semitones).

Notes

156Notes

42sSolo length

3.7Notes per second

G3–A5Range (26 semitones)

58%Stepwise motion

Pitch-class distribution

C♯

E♭

F♯

A♭

B♭

Most frequent intervals

-1 ×30
-2 ×26
+1 ×25
0 ×15
+3 ×15
+2 ×9

Changes played over

B♭D⁷

G⁷

C⁷

F⁷G♭^dim

G^m

C⁷

F⁷

B♭D⁷

G⁷

C^mE♭

D⁷

E♭E^dim

B♭G⁷

C⁷F⁷

B♭G⁷

C^mF⁷

B♭

Record

Record: The Cradle Of Jazz -Sidney Bechet - Chant In The Night CD 2 · Trumpets of Jericho Ltd.
Recorded: 1941-04-02
Line-up: Sidney Bechet (ss); Henry "Red" Allen (tp); J.C. Higginbotham (tb); James Tolliver (p); Wellman Braud (b); J.C. Herad (dr)
Composer: Warfield, Wiliams
Solo length: 01:09- 01:50

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