Henry Allen “Baby Won’t You Please Come Home”

Discographic Information

Instrument

tp

Total Duration

41.9 s

Position in Track

01:06-01:48

Album Title

The Cradle Of Jazz -Sidney Bechet - Chant In The Night CD 2

Label

Trumpets of Jericho Ltd. (20.3010-HI)

Recording Date

1941-04-02

Line Up

Sidney Bechet (ss); Henry “Red” Allen (tp); J.C. Higginbotham (tb); James Tolliver (p); Wellman Braud (b); J.C. Herad (dr)

Style

TRADITIONAL

Key

Bb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

TWOBEAT

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

0d36dbca-556a-4e81-94dc-80e825ad795c

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Bb D7 |G7   |C7   |C7   |F7 F#o |G-   |C7   |F7   ||
B1: ||Bb D7 |G7   |C- Eb |D7   |Eb Eo |Bb G7 |C7 F7 |Bb G7 |C- F7 |Bb   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

156

Number of Bars

37 bars

Number of Choruses

2

Mean Tempo

211.5 (UP)

Event Density

3.72 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

4.22 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.5:1

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

40.4 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

55-81 (26)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

42.3 %

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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