Chords & Changes

Big Butter and Egg Man

Big Butter and Egg Man — chords and changes, key facts, and listening notes.

Big Butter and Egg Man was composed by Percy Venable and Louis Armstrong. It dates from 1926. It is in G major, 32 bars long, and in A (32) form.

Key facts

Composer	Percy Venable, Louis Armstrong
Lyricist	Not listed
Year	1926
Source show / film	Not listed
Form	A (32)
Bars	32
Key	G major

Fact sources: title — wikidata; composers — musicbrainz; year — wikidata; wikipedia — wikidata; musicbrainz — wikidata; recordings — musicbrainz; changes — wjazzd; form — wjazzd; bars — wjazzd; key — wjazzd; performances — wjazzd.

Reference links: Wikidata Q4905409 · MusicBrainz work · Wikipedia.

Chart

Chord chart

Four bars per row · sections labelled

G major Key

Section A1

GD7

Section A2

Gdim7

Section B1

Section C1

Am7

Section I1

Changes confidence: high. Source: Weimar Jazz Database (Jazzomat Research Project, HfM Weimar), ODbL 1.0. Changes as annotated by the Jazzomat Research Project, licensed under the ODbL 1.0.

Listen

Recordings (from MusicBrainz)

[unknown] — Album not listed
Source: musicbrainz

1987
The New Melbourne Jazz Band — Album not listed
Source: musicbrainz

1998
Louis Armstrong — Album not listed
Source: musicbrainz

2000
Louis Armstrong & Velma Middleton — Album not listed
Source: musicbrainz

2003

Recording credits and years follow the entries in the dataset. Source: MusicBrainz.

Landmark solos

Solos analysed in the Weimar Jazz Database

Louis Armstrong (cornet) — College Music Sociecty Sourcebooks in American Music, Louis Armstrong, The Original Hot Five Recordings of Louis Armstrogn
Traditional jazz · 197 bpm · twobeat feel
2007

Solo, record, style, tempo and feel as catalogued by the Jazzomat Research Project (ODbL 1.0). Release year is the year of the catalogued issue, which can be a later reissue.

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