John Coltrane “Bessie’s Blues”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

80.1 s

Position in Track

01:29-02:49

Album Title

Crescent

Label

impulse! (MCD 05889)

Recording Date

27.04, 01.06.1964

Line Up

John Coltrane (ts); McCoy Tyner (p); Jimmy Garrison (b); Elvin Jones (dr)

Style

POSTBOP

Key

Eb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

BLUES

MusicBrainz ID

c37314d9-0466-42ff-8d35-15abb2124850

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Eb7   |Ab7   |Eb7   |Eb7   |Ab7   |Ab7   |Eb7   |Eb7   |Bb7   |Ab7   |Eb7   |Eb7   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

352

Number of Bars

62 bars

Number of Choruses

5

Mean Tempo

184.3 (UP)

Event Density

4.4 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

5.72 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.83:1

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

21.3 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

50-82 (32)

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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