Dexter Gordon “Society Red”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

244.4 s

Position in Track

03:55-07:59

Album Title

The Best Of Dexter Gordon

Label

Blue Note (CDP 7 91139 2)

Recording Date

1961-05-06

Line Up

George Tucker (b); Al Harewood (dr); Horace Parlan (p); Freddie Hubbard (tp); Dexter Gordon (ts)

Style

HARDBOP

Key

Bb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

BLUES

MusicBrainz ID

c009f6b1-e7ea-4cd9-83c6-9dd6ea662af6

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||F7   |Bb7   |F7   |F7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |F7   |D7   |G-7   |C7   |F7   |F7   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

1037

Number of Bars

116 bars

Number of Choruses

9

Mean Tempo

113.7 (MEDIUM)

Event Density

4.24 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

8.96 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.58:1

Ratio of longer to shorter eighth of beats with binary subdivision.

Metrical Centroid

2+

Mean concentration of events in the bar, rounded and normalized to 4/4.

Syncopicity

42.6 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

46-77 (31)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

41.3 %

Share of notes with direction reversal (i.e, minima and maxima of pitch contour).

Extended Chordal Diatonic Pitch Class Histogram

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Extended Chordal Diatonic Pitch Class is calculated in reference to the underlying chord.

Pitch Class Histogram

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MIDI Pitch Histogram

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Semitone Interval Histogram

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Refined Contour Histogram

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Also known as “fuzzy intervals” or interval classification. See here for definition of classes

Metrical Circle Map (N=48) Histogram

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Metrical circle maps divides the bar duration into equal sized bins (48 in this case) and maps metrical positions to the corresponding bin. (Labels normalized to 4/4 measure).

Duration Class (Abs. and Rel.) Histogram

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Relative duration classes are based on the duration of the beat. Absolute duration classes are based on 120 bpm. See here for a definition of classes.

Midlevel Analysis Main Types Histogram

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Midlevel analysis is a qualitative annotation system of playing ideas, with nine different main categories, as defined in our paper

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