Milt Jackson “Bemsha Swing”

Discographic Information

Instrument

vib

Total Duration

127.1 s

Position in Track

03:29-05:36

Album Title

La Ronde Suite

Label

Quadromania (222446)

Recording Date

1954-12-24

Line Up

Miles Davis (tp); Milt Jackson (vib); Thelonious Monk (p); Percy Heath (b); Kenny Clark (dr)

Style

COOL

Key

C-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

9e276eba-5556-411f-bd43-ebdc5d641be1

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

Download MIDI File

Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Cj7 A-7 |Abj7 Db7 |Cj7 Eb7 |D7 Db7 |Cj7 A-7 |Abj7 Db7 |Cj7 Bb7 |Ab7 Gb7 ||
B1: ||Fj7 D-7 |Dbj7 Gb7 |Fj7 Ab7 |G7 Db7 |Cj7 A-7 |Abj7 Db7 |Cj7 Bb7 |Ab7 G7 ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

548

Number of Bars

81 bars

Number of Choruses

5

Mean Tempo

152.3 (MEDIUM UP)

Event Density

4.31 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

6.8 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.35:1

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

Metrical Centroid

3

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

Syncopicity

12.0 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

55-87 (32)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

34.9 %

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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