Sonny Stitt “Blue Mode”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

94.1 s

Position in Track

02:01-03:35

Album Title

Quadromania Jazz Edition, Sonny Stitt, One O’Clock Jump, CD 2

Label

Membran Music Ltd. (22482444)

Recording Date

1949-10-17

Line Up

Sonny Stitt (ts); J.J. Johnson (tb); John Lewis (p); Nelson Boyd (b); Max Roach (dr)

Style

BEBOP

Key

Bb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

BLUES

MusicBrainz ID

fc1d191d-ca01-4053-b355-79cf8c5d6983

More Info

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

Download MIDI File

Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Bb7   |Eb7 Em7b5 |Bb7   |Bb7   |Eb7   |Eb7   |Bb7   |Bb7 G7 |C-7   |F7   |Bb7 F7 |B7G7C-7F7||
A2: ||Bb7   |A-7 D-7 |G-7   |F7   |Eb7   |Eb7   |F7   |Eb7 G7 |C-7   |C-7 F7 |Bb7   |Bb7   |NC   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

353

Number of Bars

24 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

60.7 (SLOW)

Event Density

3.75 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

14.82 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.49:1

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

49.3 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

49-74 (25)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

41.6 %

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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