Ben Webster “My Ideal”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

103.1 s

Position in Track

00:52-02:35

Album Title

Ben Webster “The Frog” with: Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, Hank Jones, guest: Harry Edison,1956-1962

Label

Giants of Jazz (CD 53167 AAD)

Recording Date

1956-09-11

Line Up

Ben Webster (ts); Art Tatum (p); Red Callender (b); Bill Douglas (dr)

Style

SWING

Key

Bb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

f2231215-1f99-47d6-8c49-5554ae0fd6c0

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Bbj7 G7 |C-7   |Ab7 G7 |C7   |C-7 F7 |Am7b5 D7 |G-7 C7 |Gb7 F7 ||
B1: ||Bbj7 G7 |C-7   |Ab7 G7 |C7   |C-7 Db-7 |Bbj7Ebj7G-7C7|Gb7 F7 |Bb6   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

308

Number of Bars

32 bars

Number of Choruses

2

Mean Tempo

74.2 (SLOW)

Event Density

2.99 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

9.65 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.2:1

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

36.4 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

49-72 (23)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

44.5 %

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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