ENDEIT

Tenor saxophone solo · 1944

Lester Young: Six Cats and a Prince

Key
B♭ major
Tempo
220 BPM UP
Rhythm feel
Swing
Style
Swing
Choruses
2
Form
A8A8B8A8

Lester Young's solo on “Six Cats and a Prince” has 310 notes in 70 seconds (4.4 notes per second), spanning 26 semitones from Bb2 to C5. The average tempo is 220 BPM with a swing feel. About 56% of the melodic motion is stepwise (one or two semitones).

Notes

310Notes
70sSolo length
4.4Notes per second
Bb2–C5Range (26 semitones)
56%Stepwise motion

Pitch-class distribution

Most frequent intervals

  • +1 ×90
  • +2 ×37
  • -3 ×34
  • +3 ×27
  • -2 ×27
  • -1 ×20

Changes played over

A1
B♭maj7
B♭maj7
Bdim
Bdim
Cm7
F7
B♭maj7
F7
A2
B♭maj7
B♭maj7
Bdim
Bdim
Cm7
F7
B♭maj7
B♭maj7
B1
B♭7
B♭7
E♭7
E♭7
C7
C7
F7
F7
A3
B♭maj7
B♭maj7
Bdim
Bdim
Cm7
F7
B♭maj7
F7

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
Clayton
Solo length
01:46-02:57

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