Branford Marsalis “The Nearness of You”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

333.3 s

Position in Track

02:51-08:25

Album Title

Trio Jeepy

Label

CBS/Columbia (4651342)

Recording Date

03.-04.01.1988

Line Up

Brandford Marsalis (ts); Milt Hinton (B); Jeffrey Watts (dr)

Style

POSTBOP

Key

D-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

3177a47e-6b52-4b5a-bf6c-0f49504f304b

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Dj7   |A-7 Dsus7 |Gj7   |Go7   |F#-7 B7 |E-7 A7 |F#-7 B7 |E-7 A7 ||
A2: ||Dj7   |A-7 Dsus7 |Gj7   |Go7   |F#-7 B7 |E-7 A7 |Dj7 C7 |D6   ||
B1: ||E-7   |A7   |Dj7   |A-7 D7 |Gj7   |F#m7b5 B7 |E7   |E-7 A7 ||
A3: ||Dj7   |A-7 Dsus7 |Gj7   |Go7   |F#-7 B7 |E-7 A7 |Dj7 B-7 |E-7 A7 ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

971

Number of Bars

51 bars

Number of Choruses

2

Mean Tempo

36.8 (SLOW)

Event Density

2.91 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

19.03 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.04:1

Ratio of longer to shorter eighth of beats with binary subdivision.

Metrical Centroid

4+

Mean concentration of events in the bar, rounded and normalized to 4/4.

Syncopicity

43.3 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

45-83 (38)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

51.7 %

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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