ENDEIT

Vibraphone solo · 1939

Lionel Hampton: Dinah

Key
A♭ major
Tempo
200 BPM UP
Rhythm feel
Swing
Style
Swing
Choruses
2
Form
A8A8B8A8

Lionel Hampton's solo on “Dinah” has 311 notes in 77 seconds (4 notes per second), spanning 29 semitones from Ab3 to C#6. The average tempo is 200 BPM with a swing feel. About 38% of the melodic motion is stepwise (one or two semitones).

Notes

311Notes
77sSolo length
4Notes per second
Ab3–C#6Range (29 semitones)
38%Stepwise motion

Pitch-class distribution

Most frequent intervals

  • -2 ×46
  • 0 ×37
  • +3 ×31
  • +2 ×30
  • -3 ×30
  • -1 ×27

Changes played over

A1
A♭
A♭
A♭
Fm7
B♭m7
E♭7
A♭E♭7
A♭
A2
A♭
A♭
A♭
Fm7
B♭m7
E♭7
A♭E♭7
A♭
B1
Fm
A♭aug
A♭
Fm6
Fm7A♭aug
Fm7B♭7
B♭m7
E♭7
A3
A♭
A♭
A♭
Fm7
B♭m7
E♭7
A♭E♭7
A♭

Record

Record
From Swing to Bebop. Jazz in History II · History/This is Music · 1989
Recorded
1939-12-21
Line-up
Benny Carter (tp); Edmond Hall (cl); Coleman Hawkins (ts); Joe Sullivan (p); Freddy Green (g); Artie Berstein (b); Zutty Singleton (dr); Lionel Hampton (vib)
Composer
Sam M. Lewis, Joe Youg, Harry Akst

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