Don Ellis “You Stepped Out of a Dream”

Discographic Information

Instrument

tp

Total Duration

39.3 s

Position in Track

00:33-01:12

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

D-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

194cb07e-ac90-4cd3-8480-3dfc7a332e2a

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Dj7   |Dj7   |Ebj7   |Ebj7   |F7   |F7   |Bbj7   |Bbj7   |A-7   |D7   |Gj7   |Gj7   |B-7   |E7   |F-7 Bb7 |E-7 A7 ||
B1: ||Dj7   |Dj7   |Ebj7   |Ebj7   |F7   |F7   |Ab7   |G7   |Em7b5   |A7   |F-7   |Bb7   |E-7   |A7   |Dj7   |Dj7   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

177

Number of Bars

33 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

199.5 (UP)

Event Density

4.51 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

5.42 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

34.5 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

56-81 (25)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

42.4 %

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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