Sidney Bechet “Summertime”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ss

Total Duration

189.1 s

Position in Track

00:48-03:57

Album Title

The Cradle Of Jazz -Sidney Bechet - Chant In The Night CD 1

Label

Trumpets of Jericho Ltd. (20.3010-HI)

Recording Date

1938-06-08

Line Up

Sidney Bechet (ss); Meade “Lux” Lewis (p); Teddy Bunn (g); John Wiliams (b); Sidney Catlett (dr)

Style

TRADITIONAL

Key

G-min

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

TWOBEAT

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

1b79829f-fcfa-47dc-90f9-5537ca749975

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

Download MIDI File

Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||G- D7 |G- D7 |G- D7 |G- G7 |C-   |C-   |Am7b5   |D7   ||
B1: ||G-   |G-   |G-   |C-7 F7 |Bbj7 Eb7 |Am7b5 D7 |G-   |Am7b5 D7 ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

388

Number of Bars

66 bars

Number of Choruses

4

Mean Tempo

84.2 (MEDIUM SLOW)

Event Density

2.05 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

5.86 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.56:1

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

40.2 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

57-81 (24)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

47.2 %

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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