Dexter Gordon “The Rainbow People”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

196.2 s

Position in Track

01:06-04:22

Album Title

The Tower Of Power

Label

Prestige (OJCCD-299-2)

Recording Date

02.&04.04.1969

Line Up

Barry Harris (p); Buster Williams (b); Albert ‘Tootie’ Heath (dr); Dexter Gordon (ts)

Style

HARDBOP

Key

Eb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

a28c1fd5-e80f-4006-b20f-52c0ec4c18d9

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Eb F-7 |G-7 F-7 |G-7 F-7 |F#-7 B7 |F-7   |Bb7   |Ebj7 C7 |F-7 Bb7 ||
A2: ||Ebj7 F-7 |G-7 F-7 |G-7 F-7 |F#-7 B7 |F-7   |Bb7   |Eb Db7 |B-7 E7 ||
B1: ||Bb-7   |Eb7   |Am7b5   |Ab7   |G7   |C7   |F7   |Bb7   ||
A3: ||Ebj7 F-7 |G-7 F-7 |G-7 F-7 |F#-7 B7 |F-7   |Bb7   |Eb C7 |F-7 Bb7 ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

719

Number of Bars

98 bars

Number of Choruses

3

Mean Tempo

120.0 (MEDIUM)

Event Density

3.66 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

7.33 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.65:1

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

40.5 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

46-77 (31)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

46.2 %

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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