ENDEIT

Trumpet solo · 1928

Louis Armstrong: Basin Street Blues

Key
B♭ major
Tempo
107 BPM MEDIUM SLOW
Rhythm feel
Twobeat
Style
Traditional
Choruses
3
Form
A12

Louis Armstrong's solo on “Basin Street Blues” has 219 notes in 67 seconds (3.3 notes per second), spanning 37 semitones from Ab3 to A6. The average tempo is 107 BPM with a twobeat feel. About 41% of the melodic motion is stepwise (one or two semitones).

Notes

219Notes
67sSolo length
3.3Notes per second
Ab3–A6Range (37 semitones)
41%Stepwise motion

Pitch-class distribution

Most frequent intervals

  • 0 ×31
  • +1 ×30
  • -1 ×27
  • -2 ×20
  • -3 ×15
  • +3 ×14

Changes played over

A1
B♭
D7
G7
G7
C7
F7
B♭B♭dim
Cm7F7

Record

Record
Hot Five & Hot Seven 1925-1928 · Giants of Jazz · 1990
Recorded
1928-12-04
Line-up
Louis Armstrong (tp); Fred Robinson (tb); Jimmy Strong (cl); Earl Hines (p); Mancy Cara (bjo); Zutty Singleton (dr)
Composer
Williams
Solo length
02:02-03:08

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