ENDEIT

Trombone solo · 1927

Kid Ory: Got No Blues

Key
F major
Tempo
145 BPM MEDIUM UP
Rhythm feel
Twobeat
Style
Traditional
Choruses
1
Form
A8B8

Kid Ory's solo on “Got No Blues” has 80 notes in 27 seconds (3 notes per second), spanning 21 semitones from Bb2 to G4. The average tempo is 145 BPM with a twobeat feel. About 49% of the melodic motion is stepwise (one or two semitones).

Notes

80Notes
27sSolo length
3Notes per second
Bb2–G4Range (21 semitones)
49%Stepwise motion

Pitch-class distribution

Most frequent intervals

  • +1 ×17
  • -3 ×12
  • -2 ×10
  • 0 ×9
  • +3 ×8
  • +2 ×6

Changes played over

A1
E♭C7
F7B♭7
E♭C7
F7B♭7
E♭
E♭C7
F7
B♭7
B1
E♭C7
F7B♭7
CmBmB♭
AD7
E♭C7
F7B♭7
E♭
E♭
I1
E♭

Record

Record
College Music Sociecty Sourcebooks in American Music, Louis Armstrong, The Original Hot Five Recordings of Louis Armstrogn · Pendragon Press, New York · 2007
Recorded
1927-12-09
Line-up
Louis Armstrong (cor); Kid Ory (tb); Johnny Dodds (cl); Lillian Hardin Armstrong (p); Johnny St. Cyr (bjo)
Composer
Lillian Hardin
Solo length
02:26-02:54

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