Coleman Hawkins “Body and Soul”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

167.4 s

Position in Track

00:00-02:47

Album Title

Dear Old Southland

Label

Membran Music Ltd. (222439-444/B)

Recording Date

1939-10-11

Line Up

Coleman Hawkins (ts); Tommy Lindsay (tp); Joe Guy (tp); Earl Hardy (tb); Jackie Fields (as); Eustis Morre (as); Gene Rodgers (p); William Oscar Smith (b); Arthur Herbert (dr); Thelma Carpenter (voc)

Style

SWING

Key

Db-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

1b5b0b25-6196-429b-ac02-a54a11f64ba6

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Eb- D+7 |Eb-7 D7 |Dbj7 Eb-7 |F-7 Eo |Eb-7   |Cm7b5 B7 |Bb-7 Eb-7Ab7|Dbj7 Fm7b5Bb79b||
A2: ||Eb- D+7 |Eb-7 D7 |Db-7 Eb-7 |F-7 Eo |Eb-7   |Cm7b5 B7 |Bb-7 Eb-7Ab7|Db E-7A7||
B1: ||Dj7 E-7 |B-7F#G-7C7|F#-7B-7E-7A7|Dj7 F#-7E-7|D-7 G7 |Cj7 Ebo |D-7 G7 |C7B7Bbsus7Bb7||
A3: ||Eb- B+7 |Eb-7 Ab7 |Dbj7 Gb7 |F-7 Eo |Eb-7   |Ab7 Ao |Ao Eb-7Ab+7|Ab+7 Fm7b5Bb7||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

635

Number of Bars

66 bars

Number of Choruses

2

Mean Tempo

95.0 (MEDIUM SLOW)

Event Density

3.79 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

9.57 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

0.75:1

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

39.8 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

46-77 (31)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

42.8 %

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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