Sidney Bechet “Limehouse Blues”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ss

Total Duration

31.4 s

Position in Track

00:35-01:07

Album Title

The Cradle Of Jazz -Sidney Bechet - Chant In The Night CD 2

Label

Trumpets of Jericho Ltd. (20.3010-HI)

Recording Date

1941-09-13

Line Up

Sidney Bechet (ss); Charlie Shavers (tp); Willie Smith (p); Everett Barksdale (g); Wellman Braud (b); Manzie Johnson (dr)

Style

TRADITIONAL

Key

Ab-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

TWOBEAT

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

2b718e7e-f877-4a44-a7d3-ad24375d58dd

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Db7   |Db7   |Db7   |Db7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Ab   |Ab   |C7   |F-7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Eb7   |Ab7   ||
B1: ||Db7   |Db7   |Db7   |Db7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Ab   |F7   |Bb-7   |Bb-7   |Bbm7b5   |Eb7   |Ab   |Ab   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

231

Number of Bars

36 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

273.6 (UP)

Event Density

7.35 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

6.44 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.23:1

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

22.5 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

60-80 (20)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

69.7 %

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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