Dizzy Gillespie “Cognac Blues”

Discographic Information

Instrument

tp

Total Duration

39.9 s

Position in Track

01:34-02:14

Album Title

Quadromania Jazz Edition, Don Byas, Moon Nocturne CD 4

Label

Membran Music Ltd. (222414444)

Recording Date

1952-03-25

Line Up

Dizzy Gillespie (tp); Don Byas (ts); Ar Simmons (p); Joe Benjamin (b); Bill Clark (dr); Humberto Morales (cga)

Style

BEBOP

Key

F-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

BLUES

MusicBrainz ID

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||F7   |Bb7   |F7   |F7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |F7   |F7   |G-7   |G-7   |F7 D-7 |G-7 C7 ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

150

Number of Bars

19 bars

Number of Choruses

2

Mean Tempo

113.6 (MEDIUM)

Event Density

3.76 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

7.97 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.75:1

Ratio of longer to shorter eighth of beats with binary subdivision.

Metrical Centroid

2

Mean concentration of events in the bar, rounded and normalized to 4/4.

Syncopicity

24.7 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

62-89 (27)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

44.0 %

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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