J.J. Johnson “Blues in the Closet”

Discographic Information

Instrument

tb

Total Duration

197.5 s

Position in Track

00:30-03:48

Album Title

Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson At The Opera House

Label

Polydor K.K (POCJ-2469)

Recording Date

1957-09-29

Line Up

Stan Getz (ts); J.J. Johnson (tb); Oscar Peterson (p); Herb Ellis (g); Ray Brown (b); Connie Kay (dr)

Style

BEBOP

Key

Bb-blues

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

BLUES

MusicBrainz ID

e3ca10e3-13a5-4fe5-aa23-7af9db3815dc

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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   |G7   |C-7   |F7   |Bb7   |F7   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

812

Number of Bars

193 bars

Number of Choruses

16

Mean Tempo

234.4 (UP)

Event Density

4.11 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

4.2 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.44:1

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

26.4 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

53-74 (21)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

35.8 %

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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