Milt Jackson “Softly as in a Morning Sunrise”

Discographic Information

Instrument

vib

Total Duration

171.3 s

Position in Track

01:01-03:53

Album Title

Quadromania Jazz Edition, Milt Jackson, La Ronde Suite, CD 4

Label

Membran International (222446444)

Recording Date

1955-07-02

Line Up

Milt Jackson (vib); John Lewis (p); Percy Heath (b); Connie Kay (dr)

Style

COOL

Key

C-min

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

MODAL

MusicBrainz ID

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||C-7   |Dm7b5 G7 |C-7   |Dm7b5 G7 |C-7   |Dm7b5 G7 |C-7   |Dm7b5 G7 ||
A2: ||C-7   |Dm7b5 G7 |C-7   |Dm7b5 G7 |C-7   |Dm7b5 G7 |C-7   |F-7 Bb7 ||
B1: ||Ebj7   |Gm7b5   |C7   |C79b   |F-   |C7 Ab7911# |D-/G   |G7   ||
A3: ||C-7   |Dm7b5 G7 |C-7   |Dm7b5 G7 |C-7   |Dm7b5 G7 |C-7   |G79   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

844

Number of Bars

98 bars

Number of Choruses

3

Mean Tempo

137.3 (MEDIUM)

Event Density

4.93 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

8.61 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.72:1

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

24.3 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

53-87 (34)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

29.4 %

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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