Lester Young “Six Cats and a Prince”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

69.8 s

Position in Track

01:43-02:53

Album Title

Quadromania Jazz Edition, Lester Young, Lester’s Be-Bop Boogie CD 2

Label

Membran Music Ltd.. (222500444)

Recording Date

1944-03-22

Line Up

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

Style

SWING

Key

Bb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

68b19d4d-1f81-4ff8-86f3-139fc10dc26a

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Bbj7   |Bbj7   |Bo   |Bo   |C-7   |F7   |Bbj7   |F7   ||
A2: ||Bbj7   |Bbj7   |Bo   |Bo   |C-7   |F7   |Bbj7   |Bbj7   ||
B1: ||Bb7   |Bb7   |Eb7   |Eb7   |C7   |C7   |F7   |F7   ||
A3: ||Bbj7   |Bbj7   |Bo   |Bo   |C-7   |F7   |Bbj7   |F7   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

310

Number of Bars

64 bars

Number of Choruses

2

Mean Tempo

220.1 (UP)

Event Density

4.44 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

4.85 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.52:1

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

Metrical Centroid

4+

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

Syncopicity

38.4 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

46-72 (26)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

42.6 %

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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