Don Ellis “I Love You”

Discographic Information

Instrument

tp

Total Duration

105.9 s

Position in Track

01:43-03:29

Album Title

Giants of Jazz: Don Ellis featuring Paul Bley, Steve Swallow, Gary Peacock, Nick Martins, Jaki Byard, Ron Carter and Charlie Persip

Label

Sarabandas srl (Giants of Jazz) (CD 53262)

Recording Date

1961-04-21

Line Up

Don Ellis (tp); Paul Bley (p); Steve Swallow (b)

Style

POSTBOP

Key

F-maj

Signature

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

8c834d60-f3f5-4620-a492-3ca0165efc90

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Gm7b5   |C79b   |Fj7   |Fj7   |G-7   |C7   |Fj7   |Fj7   ||
A2: ||Gm7b5   |C79b   |Fj7   |B-7 E7 |Aj7   |B-7 E7 |Aj7   |Aj7   ||
B1: ||G-7   |C7   |Fj7   |Fj7   |Am7b5   |D79b   |G7   |C7   ||
A3: ||Gm7b5   |C79b   |Fj7   |Am7b5 D7 |G7   |G-7 C7 |F6   |F6   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

305

Number of Bars

65 bars

Number of Choruses

2

Mean Tempo

146.9 (MEDIUM UP)

Event Density

2.88 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

4.71 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.64:1

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

40.3 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

57-85 (28)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

37.0 %

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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