Tenor saxophone solo · 1950

Zoot Sims: All the Things You Are

Key
A♭ major
Tempo
192 BPM UP
Rhythm feel
Swing
Style
Cool
Choruses
1
Form
A8B8C8D12

Zoot Sims's solo on “All the Things You Are” has 176 notes in 46 seconds (3.8 notes per second), spanning 24 semitones from Eb3 to Eb5. The average tempo is 192 BPM with a swing feel. About 43% of the melodic motion is stepwise (one or two semitones).

Notes

176Notes
46sSolo length
3.8Notes per second
Eb3–Eb5Range (24 semitones)
43%Stepwise motion

Pitch-class distribution

Most frequent intervals

  • 0 ×20
  • -1 ×20
  • -2 ×20
  • -3 ×19
  • +2 ×18
  • +1 ×17

Changes played over

A1
Fm7
B♭m7
E♭7
A♭maj7
D♭maj7
Dm7G7
Cmaj7
Cmaj7
B1
Cm7
Fm7
B♭7
E♭maj7
A♭maj7
Am7D7
Gmaj7
Gmaj7
C1
Am7
D7
Gmaj7
Gmaj7
G♭m7N.C.
B7
Emaj7
C+7
D1
Fm7
B♭m7
E♭7
A♭maj7
D♭maj7
D♭m7
Cm7
Bdim7
B♭m7
E♭7
A♭maj7
A♭maj7
I1
Fm7
Fm7

Record

Record
Quadromania Jazz Edition, Zoot Sims, That Old Feeling, CD 1 · Membran Music Ltd. · 2005
Recorded
1950-04-23
Line-up
Zoot Sims (ts); Toots Thielemans (hca); Jimmy Woode (p); Simon Brehm (b); Jack Noren (dr)
Composer
J. Kern, O. Hammerstein
Solo length
00:59-01:35

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