Lester Young “D.B. Blues”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

70.3 s

Position in Track

00:00-01:10

Album Title

Lester’s Be-Bop Boogie

Label

Membran Music Ltd.. (222500-444/C)

Recording Date

1945-12-01

Line Up

Vie Dickenson (tb); Dodo Marmarosa (p); Red Callender (b); Henry Tucker (dr); Lester Young (ts)

Style

SWING

Key

Bb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

BLUES

MusicBrainz ID

9139bd63-d359-449c-89f1-50e8c397e047

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Bb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Eb7   |Eb7   |Bb7   |G7   |C-7   |F7   |Bb7   |F7   ||
A2: ||Bb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Eb7   |Eb7   |Bb7   |G7   |C-7   |F7   |Bb7   |Bb7   ||
B1: ||D7   |D7   |G7   |G7   |C7   |C7   |F7   |F7   ||
A3: ||Bb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Eb7   |Eb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |G7   |C-7   |F7   |Bb7   ||
I1:

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

221

Number of Bars

44 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

151.1 (MEDIUM UP)

Event Density

3.14 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

4.99 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.84:1

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

45.2 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

48-74 (26)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

38.0 %

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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