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Soprano saxophone solo · 1941

Sidney Bechet: Baby Won't You Please Come Home

Key
B♭ major
Tempo
207 BPM UP
Rhythm feel
Twobeat
Style
Traditional
Choruses
1
Form
A8B8

Sidney Bechet's solo on “Baby Won't You Please Come Home” has 100 notes in 21 seconds (4.7 notes per second), spanning 18 semitones from C#4 to G5. The average tempo is 207 BPM with a twobeat feel. About 59% of the melodic motion is stepwise (one or two semitones).

Notes

100Notes
21sSolo length
4.7Notes per second
C#4–G5Range (18 semitones)
59%Stepwise motion

Pitch-class distribution

Most frequent intervals

  • +1 ×20
  • 0 ×15
  • +2 ×13
  • -1 ×13
  • -2 ×12
  • +5 ×7

Changes played over

A1
B♭D7
G7
C7
C7
F7G♭dim
Gm
C7
F7
B1
B♭D7
G7
CmE♭
D7
E♭Edim
B♭G7
C7F7
B♭G7
C7F7
B♭
I1
B♭

Record

Record
The Cradle Of Jazz -Sidney Bechet - Chant In The Night CD 2 · Trumpets of Jericho Ltd.
Recorded
1941-04-02
Line-up
Sidney Bechet (ss); Henry "Red" Allen (tp); J.C. Higginbotham (tb); James Tolliver (p); Wellman Braud (b); J.C. Herad (dr)
Composer
Warfield, Wiliams
Solo length
00:08-00:28

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