ENDEIT

Trombone solo · 1925

Kid Ory: Gut Bucket Blues

Key
C major
Tempo
150 BPM MEDIUM UP
Rhythm feel
Twobeat
Style
Traditional
Choruses
1
Form
A12

Kid Ory's solo on “Gut Bucket Blues” has 43 notes in 16 seconds (2.6 notes per second), spanning 16 semitones from C3 to E4. The average tempo is 150 BPM with a twobeat feel. About 50% of the melodic motion is stepwise (one or two semitones).

Notes

43Notes
16sSolo length
2.6Notes per second
C3–E4Range (16 semitones)
50%Stepwise motion

Pitch-class distribution

Most frequent intervals

  • +1 ×8
  • +2 ×6
  • -1 ×5
  • -4 ×5
  • 0 ×4
  • +3 ×3

Changes played over

A1
C
F
C
C
F
F
C
C
G7
F
C
C

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
1925-11-12
Line-up
Louis Armstrong (cor); Kid Ory (tb); Johnny Dodds (cl); Lillian Hardin Armstrong (p); Johnny St. Cyr (bjo)
Composer
Louis Armstrong
Solo length
01:18-01:35

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