Ben Webster “Where or When”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

117.2 s

Position in Track

02:15-04:12

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

Ab-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

7eb298e8-12a6-4d2f-a506-4f697b1c1760

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Abj7   |Abj7   |Abo7   |Abj7   |Dbj7   |Dbj7   |Dbj7   |Bb-7 Ebsus79 |D7 F7 |Bb7 Eb7 ||
A2: ||Abj7   |Abj7   |Abo7   |Abj7   |Dbj7   |Dbj7   |Dbj7   |Bb-7 Ebsus79 |G-7   |C7   ||
B1: ||F-7   |Bb7   |G-7   |C7   |F-7   |Bb7   |Bb7 E7911# |Eb7   ||
A3: ||Abj7   |D-7 G7 |Db7911# C7 |F-7   |Bb-7   |C-7 F7 |Bb-7   |F7   |Bb-7   |Eb7   |Ab69   |Ab69   ||
I1: ||NC   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

268

Number of Bars

40 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

82.1 (MEDIUM SLOW)

Event Density

2.29 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

6.68 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.58:1

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

Metrical Centroid

1

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

Syncopicity

41.0 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

48-68 (20)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

38.1 %

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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