Coleman Hawkins “Sophisticated Lady”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

173.6 s

Position in Track

00:04-02:57

Album Title

Quadromania Jazz Edition, Coleman Hawkins, Dear Old Southland, CD 3

Label

Membran Music Ltd. (22243944)

Recording Date

1949-12-21

Line Up

Coleman Hawkins (ts); Jean Paul Mengon (p); Peirre Michelat (b); Kenny Clarke (dr)

Style

SWING

Key

Ab-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

02bd1f99-ad59-4467-8279-71bdb76a88c7

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Bb-7   |Gb7F7E7Eb7|Abj7   |Ab7G7Gb7F7|Bb7   |Bb-7 Eb7 |Abj7   |Ab7 F79b ||
A2: ||Bb-7   |Gb7F7E7Eb7|Abj7   |Ab7G7Gb7F7|Bb7   |Bb-7 Eb7 |Abj7   |Ab7911# D79b ||
B1: ||Gj7 E-7 |A-7 D7 |G7 G#o7 |A-7 D7 |Gj7 E-7 |A-7 D7 |G7 C-7 |Eb7 Cm7b5F79b||
A3: ||Bb-7   |Gb7F7E7Eb7|Abj7   |Ab7G7Gb7F7|Bb7   |Bb-7 Eb7 |Abj7   |Ab7 F79b ||
B2: ||Gj7 B-7 |A-7F7D7Eb7|G7 G#o7 |A-7G7D7F7|Gj7 E-7 |A-7 D7 |G7 C-7 |Eb7 Cm7b5F79b||
A4: ||Bb-7   |Gb7F7E7Eb7|Abj7   |Ab7G7Gb7F7|Bb7   |Bb-7 Eb7 |Abj7   |Abj7   ||
I1: ||Abj7   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

696

Number of Bars

49 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

67.6 (SLOW)

Event Density

4.01 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

14.25 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

0.63:1

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

47.0 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

47-74 (27)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

40.7 %

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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