Steve Lacy “Ask Me Now”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ss

Total Duration

89.0 s

Position in Track

03:00-04:29

Album Title

Steve Lacy plays Thelonious Monk - Reflections

Label

Original Jazz Classics/Prestige New Jazz (OJCCD-063-2)

Recording Date

1958-10-17

Line Up

Steve Lacy (ss); Mal Waldron (p); Buell Neidlinger (b); Elvin Jones (dr)

Style

HARDBOP

Key

Db-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

b1506b27-04f5-476d-9ee6-ece9ffcf7454

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||G-7C7F#-7B7|F-7Bb7E-7A7|Eb-7 Ab7 |B7 Bb7 |Eb7 D7 |Dbj7 Eb7 |Eb-7 Ab7 |F-7E7Eb-7D7||
A2: ||G-7C7F#-7B7|F-7Bb7E-7A7|Eb-7 Ab7 |B7 Bb7 |Eb7 D7 |Dbj7 Eb7 |Eb-7 Ab7 |Db   ||
B1: ||Eb-7 Ab |Dbj7  E-7|Eb-7 Ab7 |Dbj7   |Bb-7 Eb7 |Eb7 Bb-7 |Eb-7 Ab7 |Db-7 Gb7 ||
A3: ||G-7C7F#-7B7|F-7Bb7E-7A7|Eb-7 Ab7 |B7 Bb7 |Eb7 D7 |Dbj7 Eb7 |Eb-7 Ab7 |Db   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

189

Number of Bars

32 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

85.4 (MEDIUM SLOW)

Event Density

2.12 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

5.97 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.38:1

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

39.2 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

57-87 (30)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

33.9 %

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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