ENDEIT

Tenor saxophone solo · 1950

Zoot Sims: Dancing in the Dark

Key
A♭ major
Tempo
125 BPM MEDIUM
Rhythm feel
Swing
Style
Cool
Choruses
1
Form
A16B16

Zoot Sims's solo on “Dancing in the Dark” has 110 notes in 63 seconds (1.8 notes per second), spanning 19 semitones from C#3 to Ab4. The average tempo is 125 BPM with a swing feel. About 39% of the melodic motion is stepwise (one or two semitones).

Notes

110Notes
63sSolo length
1.8Notes per second
C#3–Ab4Range (19 semitones)
39%Stepwise motion

Pitch-class distribution

Most frequent intervals

  • 0 ×21
  • -2 ×18
  • +2 ×16
  • -3 ×10
  • +4 ×8
  • -4 ×7

Changes played over

A1
A♭maj7
A♭maj7
A♭dim7
A♭dim7
B♭m7
B♭m7
B♭m7♭5
E♭79♭
A♭maj7
A♭m7
C7alt
F79♭
B♭m7♭5
B♭m7♭5
B♭m7♭5
E♭79♭
B1
A♭maj7
A♭maj7
A♭dim7
A♭dim7
B♭m7
B♭m7
B♭m7♭5
B♭m7♭5E♭79♭
A♭maj7
A♭m7
B7
A7
A♭6
B♭m7♭5E♭7
A♭6
B♭m7E♭7

Record

Record
Quadromania Jazz Edition, Zoot Sims, That Old Feeling, CD 2 · Membran Music Ltd. · 2005
Recorded
1950-09-16
Line-up
Zoot Sims (ts); Joh Lewis (p); Curly Russel (b); Don Lamond (dr)
Composer
Dietz/Schwartz
Solo length
00:08-01:11

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