Kenny Dorham “Lady Bird”

Discographic Information

Instrument

tp

Total Duration

91.7 s

Position in Track

00:39-02:11

Album Title

Quadromania Jazz Edition, Horace Silver, Down Home; CD 4

Label

Membran Music Ltd. (222477444)

Recording Date

1955-11-11

Line Up

Kenny Dorham (tp); Hank Mobley (ts); Horace Silver (p); Doug Watkins (b); Art Blakey (dr)

Style

HARDBOP

Key

C-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

bc461eae-ce56-4ec1-ba44-b61de78b4c79

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Cj7   |Cj7   |F-7   |Bb7   |Cj7   |Cj7   |Bb-7   |Eb7   |Abj7   |Abj7   |A-7   |D7   |D-7   |G7   |Cj7 Ebj7 |Abj7 Dbj7 ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

483

Number of Bars

81 bars

Number of Choruses

5

Mean Tempo

211.6 (UP)

Event Density

5.27 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

5.96 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.16:1

Ratio of longer to shorter eighth of beats with binary subdivision.

Metrical Centroid

3+

Mean concentration of events in the bar, rounded and normalized to 4/4.

Syncopicity

21.7 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

55-81 (26)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

40.2 %

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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