Zoot Sims “Dancing in the Dark”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

62.6 s

Position in Track

00:04-01:06

Album Title

Quadromania Jazz Edition, Zoot Sims, That Old Feeling, CD 2

Label

Membran Music Ltd. (222478444)

Recording Date

1950-09-16

Line Up

Zoot Sims (ts); Joh Lewis (p); Curly Russel (b); Don Lamond (dr)

Style

COOL

Key

Ab-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

bda792e5-2b65-4984-812c-44fd43d41b6f

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Abj7   |Abj7   |Abo7   |Abo7   |Bb-7   |Bb-7   |Bbm7b5   |Eb79b   |Abj7   |Ab-7   |C7alt   |F79b   |Bbm7b5   |Bbm7b5   |Bbm7b5   |Eb79b   ||
B1: ||Abj7   |Abj7   |Abo7   |Abo7   |Bb-7   |Bb-7   |Bbm7b5   |Bbm7b5 Eb79b |Abj7   |Ab-7   |B7   |A7   |Ab6   |Bbm7b5 Eb7 |Ab6   |Bb-7 Eb7 ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

110

Number of Bars

33 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

124.7 (MEDIUM)

Event Density

1.76 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

3.38 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

0.98:1

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

60.9 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

49-68 (19)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

41.8 %

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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