Fats Navarro “The Skunk”

Discographic Information

Instrument

tp

Total Duration

34.6 s

Position in Track

01:08-01:43

Album Title

From Swing to Bebop, Double Talk, Fats Navarro CD 2

Label

Trumpets of Jericho Ltd. (20.1976-HI)

Recording Date

1948-10-11

Line Up

Howard McGhee (tp, p); Fats Navarro (tp); Ernie Henry (as); Milt Jackson (p, vib); Curley Russel (b); Kenny Clarke (dr)

Style

BEBOP

Key

Db-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: ||Db7   |Gb7   |Db7   |Db7   |Gb7   |Gb7   |Db7   |Bb7   |Eb7   |Ab7   |Db7   |Ab7   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

162

Number of Bars

24 bars

Number of Choruses

2

Mean Tempo

163.8 (MEDIUM UP)

Event Density

4.69 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

6.88 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.58:1

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

40.1 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

56-87 (31)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

34.0 %

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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