Baritone saxophone solo · 1958

Pepper Adams: You'd Be So Nice to Come Home to

Key
C major
Tempo
89 BPM MEDIUM SLOW
Rhythm feel
Swing
Style
Hardbop
Choruses
1
Form
A16B16

Pepper Adams's solo on “You'd Be So Nice to Come Home to” has 140 notes in 43 seconds (3.2 notes per second), spanning 21 semitones from A2 to F#4. The average tempo is 89 BPM with a swing feel. About 52% of the melodic motion is stepwise (one or two semitones).

Notes

140Notes
43sSolo length
3.2Notes per second
A2–F#4Range (21 semitones)
52%Stepwise motion

Pitch-class distribution

Most frequent intervals

  • -2 ×26
  • +2 ×20
  • +1 ×18
  • -3 ×12
  • +3 ×11
  • +4 ×10

Changes played over

A1
Am6

Record

Record
Chet · Riverside Records · 1959
Recorded
1958-12-30
Line-up
Chet Baker (tp); Herbie Mann (fl); Pepper Adams (bs); Bill Evans (p); Paul Chambers (b); Connie Kay (dr)
Composer
Cole Porter
Solo length
02:13-02:57

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