ENDEIT

Trombone solo · 1941

J.C. Higginbotham: Baby Won't You Please Come Home

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

J.C. Higginbotham's solo on “Baby Won't You Please Come Home” has 170 notes in 41 seconds (4.2 notes per second), spanning 22 semitones from F3 to Eb5. The average tempo is 210 BPM with a twobeat feel. About 47% of the melodic motion is stepwise (one or two semitones).

Notes

170Notes
41sSolo length
4.2Notes per second
F3–Eb5Range (22 semitones)
47%Stepwise motion

Pitch-class distribution

Most frequent intervals

  • -1 ×28
  • -2 ×25
  • -3 ×19
  • 0 ×17
  • +2 ×14
  • +3 ×13

Changes played over

A1
B♭D7
G7
C7
C7
F7G♭dim
Gm
C7
F7
B1
B♭D7
G7
CmE♭
D7
E♭Edim
B♭G7
C7F7
B♭G7
CmF7
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
00:28-01:09

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