John Coltrane “Nutty”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

169.5 s

Position in Track

00:54-03:43

Album Title

Trane’s Blues

Label

Giants of Jazz (CD 53058)

Recording Date

June/July 1957

Line Up

John Coltrane (ts); Thelonious Monk (p); Wilbur Ware (b); Shadow Wilson (dr)

Style

HARDBOP

Key

Bb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

b7606725-cb17-41a3-a1da-cbf0dc823d1d

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Bbj7 G79b/B |C-7 F7 |Bbj7 G7 |C-7 F7 |Bbj7 G79b/B |C-7 F7 |Bbj7   |C-7 F7 ||
A2: ||Bbj7 G79b/B |C-7 F7 |Bbj7 G7 |C-7 F7 |Bbj7 G79b/B |C-7 F7 |Bbj7   |F-7 Bb7 ||
B1: ||Ebj7 C79b |F-7 Bb7 |Ebj7 C7 |F-7 Bb7 |Ebj7 C79b |F-7 Bb7 |Ebj7   |C-7 F7 ||
A3: ||Bbj7 G79b |C-7 F7 |Bbj7 G7 |C-7 F7 |Bbj7 G79b |C-7 F7 |Bbj7   |Bbj7   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

1226

Number of Bars

97 bars

Number of Choruses

3

Mean Tempo

137.8 (MEDIUM)

Event Density

7.23 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

12.6 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.33:1

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

38.7 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

45-80 (35)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

32.4 %

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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