Louis Armstrong “Basin Street Blues”

Discographic Information

Instrument

tp

Total Duration

67.2 s

Position in Track

01:59-03:06

Album Title

Hot Five & Hot Seven 1925-1928

Label

Giants of Jazz (CD53001)

Recording Date

1928-12-04

Line Up

Louis Armstrong (tp); Fred Robinson (tb); Jimmy Strong (cl); Earl Hines (p); Mancy Cara (bjo); Zutty Singleton (dr)

Style

TRADITIONAL

Key

Bb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

TWOBEAT

Tonality Class

BLUES

MusicBrainz ID

931ad827-b244-41f0-bc26-0694dc50c041

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Bb   |D7   |G7   |G7   |C7   |F7   |Bb Bbo |C-7 F7 ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

219

Number of Bars

30 bars

Number of Choruses

3

Mean Tempo

107.2 (MEDIUM SLOW)

Event Density

3.26 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

7.31 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.39:1

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

27.4 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

56-93 (37)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

43.8 %

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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