Sonny Stitt “Blues in Be-Bop”

Discographic Information

Instrument

as

Total Duration

29.0 s

Position in Track

00:16-00:45

Album Title

Quadromania Jazz Edition, Sonny Stitt, One O’Clock Jump, CD 1

Label

Membran Music Ltd. (22482444)

Recording Date

1946-09-04

Line Up

Kenny Dorham (tp); Sonny Stitt (as); Bud Powell (p); Al Hall (b); Al Hall (b); Kenny Clarke (dr)

Style

BEBOP

Key

Eb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

BLUES

MusicBrainz ID

3f9c0f89-0e80-4743-ac6c-ed6e3260bb27

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

Download MIDI File

Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Eb7   |Ab7   |Eb7   |Eb7   |Ab7   |Ab7   |Eb7   |Bb-7 A7 |Ab7   |Bb7   |Eb7   |Eb7 Bb7 ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

127

Number of Bars

22 bars

Number of Choruses

2

Mean Tempo

185.8 (UP)

Event Density

4.38 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

5.65 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.52:1

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

25.2 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

53-79 (26)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

40.2 %

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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