Lester Young “Lester Leaps In”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

60.9 s

Position in Track

00:28-01:29

Album Title

Lester’s Be-Bop Boogie

Label

Membran Music Ltd. (222500-444/A)

Recording Date

1939-09-05

Line Up

Buck Clayton (tp); Dickie Wells (tb); Count Basie (p); Freddie Green (g); Walter Page (b); Jo Jones (dr); Lester Young (ts)

Style

SWING

Key

Bb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

369a52fc-8a40-42e4-954d-a09c228cd381

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Bb   |Bb   |Bb   |Bb   |Bb   |Bb   |Bb   |Bb   ||
A2: ||Bb   |Bb   |Bb   |Bb   |Bb   |Bb   |Bb   |Bb   ||
B1: ||D7   |D7   |G7   |G7   |C7   |C7   |F7   |F7   ||
A3: ||Bb   |Bb   |Bb   |Bb   |Bb   |Bb   |Bb   |Bb   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

299

Number of Bars

64 bars

Number of Choruses

2

Mean Tempo

251.4 (UP)

Event Density

4.91 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

4.69 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.36:1

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

22.4 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

46-72 (26)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

39.1 %

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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