ENDEIT

Tenor saxophone solo · 1944

Lester Young: After Theatre Jump

Key
D♭ major
Tempo
176 BPM MEDIUM UP
Rhythm feel
Swing
Style
Swing
Choruses
2
Form
A8A8B8A8

Lester Young's solo on “After Theatre Jump” has 305 notes in 87 seconds (3.5 notes per second), spanning 30 semitones from Ab2 to D5. The average tempo is 176 BPM with a swing feel. About 42% of the melodic motion is stepwise (one or two semitones).

Notes

305Notes
87sSolo length
3.5Notes per second
Ab2–D5Range (30 semitones)
42%Stepwise motion

Pitch-class distribution

Most frequent intervals

  • -2 ×45
  • +1 ×43
  • -3 ×30
  • +3 ×29
  • -4 ×24
  • +2 ×23

Changes played over

A1
D♭B♭7
E♭m7A♭7
Fm7B♭m7
E♭m7A♭7
A♭m7D♭7
G♭7B7
Fm7B♭m7
E♭m7A♭7
A2
D♭B♭7
E♭m7A♭7
Fm7B♭m7
E♭m7A♭7
A♭m7D♭7
G♭7B7
Fm7B♭m7
E♭7A♭7
B1
C7
C7
F7
F7
B♭7
B♭7
E♭7
A♭7
A3
D♭B♭7
E♭m7A♭7
Fm7B♭m7
E♭m7A♭7
A♭m7D♭7
G♭7B7
Fm7B♭m7
E♭m7A♭7

Record

Record
Quadromania Jazz Edition, Lester Young, Lester's Be-Bop Boogie CD 2 · Membran Music Ltd.. · 2005
Recorded
1944-03-22
Line-up
Lester Young (ts); Buck Clayton (tp); Dickie Wells (tb); Count Basie (p); Freddie Green (g); Rodney Richardson (b); Jo Jones (dr)
Composer
Wells
Solo length
02:15-03:43

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