Dexter Gordon “Stanley the Steamer”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

192.1 s

Position in Track

00:29-03:41

Album Title

The Tower Of Power

Label

Prestige (OJCCD-299-2)

Recording Date

02.&04.04.1969

Line Up

Barry Harris (p); Buster Williams (b); Albert ‘Tootie’ Heath (dr); Dexter Gordon (ts)

Style

HARDBOP

Key

Bb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

BLUES

MusicBrainz ID

b9d15dba-98e7-444f-b8ab-16bf52f2e7c3

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Bb7   |Eb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Eb7   |Eb7   |Bb7   |D-7 G7 |C-7   |F7   |Bb7   |F7   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

777

Number of Bars

145 bars

Number of Choruses

12

Mean Tempo

181.2 (UP)

Event Density

4.04 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

5.36 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.69:1

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

Metrical Centroid

3

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

Syncopicity

36.4 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

46-84 (38)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

38.6 %

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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