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Tenor saxophone solo · 1939

Lester Young: Dickie's Dream

Key
C minor
Tempo
229 BPM UP
Rhythm feel
Swing
Style
Swing
Choruses
1
Form
A8A8B8A8

Lester Young's solo on “Dickie's Dream” has 157 notes in 31 seconds (5 notes per second), spanning 21 semitones from C3 to A4. The average tempo is 229 BPM with a swing feel. About 46% of the melodic motion is stepwise (one or two semitones).

Notes

157Notes
31sSolo length
5Notes per second
C3–A4Range (21 semitones)
46%Stepwise motion

Pitch-class distribution

Most frequent intervals

  • +2 ×32
  • -3 ×19
  • -2 ×18
  • +1 ×15
  • -4 ×15
  • +3 ×12

Changes played over

A1
CmCm/B♭
A♭G7
CmCm/B♭
A♭G7
CmCm/B♭
A♭G7
CmCm/B♭
A♭G7
A2
CmCm/B♭
A♭G7
CmCm/B♭
A♭G7
CmCm/B♭
A♭G7
CmCm/B♭
A♭G7
B1
C7
C7
F7
F7
B♭7
B♭7
E♭7
DmG7
A3
CmCm/B♭
A♭G7
CmCm/B♭
A♭G7
CmCm/B♭
A♭G7
CmCm/B♭
A♭G7
I1
Cm

Record

Record
Quadromania Jazz Edition, Lester Young, Lester's Be-Bop Boogie CD 1 · Membran Music Ltd. · 2005
Recorded
1939-09-05
Line-up
Lester Young (ts); Buck Clayton (tp); Dickie Wells (tb); Count Basie (p); Freddie Green (g); Walter Page (b); Jo Jones (dr)
Composer
Basie-Young
Solo length
01:11-01:45

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