For my repeated listening, I chose to listen to “Salt Peanuts” Written by Dizzy Gillespie and Kenny Clarke.

During my first listen, I found that my attention was focused mostly on the saxophone line which seemed to lead the song. This idea changed as I listened more and over the next few times play throughs I was really drawn to the bass line.  The bass line became the leading line and base of the song as I listened. It walked rapidly through pitches and its speed was matched by the percussion. The saxophone was no longer leading, but rather playfully dancing overtop what the bass and the percussion provided as a floor. More listening had me drawn the piano, which complimented the other line where there seemed to be gaps, save for it’s moment where the saxophone ceases for the piano to have a turn dancing on the floor of bass and percussion. Near the end of the song, the drums have a moment of their own, where the rest ceases and we hear that the drums can dance on their own. It then shows how its rhythm can mimic the melody that the vocal line, along with the saxophone, often sings, ‘salt peanuts, salt peanuts.’