Lionel Hampton “High Society”

Discographic Information

Instrument

vib

Total Duration

30.2 s

Position in Track

01:03-01:33

Album Title

From Swing to Bebop. Jazz in History II

Label

History/This is Music (20.19791-HI)

Recording Date

1939-04-03

Line Up

Irvin Randolph (tp); Hymie Schertzer (bcl, as); Russel Procope (as); Jerry Jerome (ts); Chu Berry (ts); Clyde Hart (p); Allen Reuss (g); Milt Hinton (b); Cozy Cole (dr); Lionel Hampton (vib, vcl)

Style

SWING

Key

Eb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

c34421ee-01d4-465c-9cbe-956e568ef339

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Eb   |Eb   |Eb   |Eb   |Eb   |Eb Ab |Eb   |Eb   |Bb7   |Bb7 D7 |Eb   |Eb   |F7   |F7   |Bb7   |Bb7   ||
B1: ||Eb   |Eb   |Eb   |Bb7   |Eb   |Eb Ab |Eb   |Eb7   |Ab   |Ao   |Eb   |C7   |F7   |Bb7   |Eb   |Eb   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

170

Number of Bars

31 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

245.1 (UP)

Event Density

5.62 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

5.51 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.25:1

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

19.4 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

55-87 (32)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

50.6 %

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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