Steve Lacy “Easy to Love”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ss

Total Duration

187.7 s

Position in Track

00:48-03:56

Album Title

Steve Lacy featuring Roswell Rudd, Don Cherry, Carl Brown, Bill Higgins, Winton Kelly, Buell Neidlinger, Dennis Charles and Henry Grimes

Label

Giants of Jazz (CD 53260)

Recording Date

1957-11-01

Line Up

Steve Lacy (ss); Wynton Kelly (p); Buell Neidlinger (b); Dennis Charles (dr)

Style

HARDBOP

Key

G-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

9ddf9ac7-49de-4847-b038-506e888b13af

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||A-7   |D-7   |A-7   |D7   |Gj7   |C79   |B-7   |E79b   |A-7   |D79   |Gj7   |B-7 E7 |A-7   |D7   |B-7   |B-7 E79b ||
A2: ||A-7   |D-7   |A-7   |D7   |Gj7   |C79   |B-7   |E79b   |A-7   |C-7 F7 |Gj7   |Bbo7   |A-7   |D7   |G   |Bm7b5 E79b ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

697

Number of Bars

130 bars

Number of Choruses

4

Mean Tempo

166.3 (MEDIUM UP)

Event Density

3.71 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

5.37 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.64:1

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

45.2 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

55-87 (32)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

39.7 %

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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