Steve Lacy “Skippy”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ss

Total Duration

86.6 s

Position in Track

00:25-01:52

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

Ab-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

1878c31b-afe9-433f-b25a-5b8141deedd5

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||D7 G7 |C7 F7 |Bb7 A7 |Ab7 Db7 |Gb7 F7 |Bb7 A7 |Ab7   |G7   |Gb7 F7 |E7 Eb7 |Ab7 G7 |Gb7 F7 |Bb7 A7 |Ab7 Db7 |F#7 B7 |E7 A7 ||
B1: ||D7 G7 |C7 F7 |Bb7 A7 |Ab7 Db7 |Gb7 F7 |Bb7 A7 |Ab7 Db7 |Gb7   |Db7C7B7Bb7|A7Ab7G7Gb7|B7Bb7A7Ab7|G7Gb7F7E7|Bb-7 Eb7 |Bb-7 Eb7 |Bb-7 Eb7 |Ab   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

582

Number of Bars

96 bars

Number of Choruses

3

Mean Tempo

266.8 (UP)

Event Density

6.72 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

6.05 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.28:1

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

Metrical Centroid

1+

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

Syncopicity

16.8 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

58-86 (28)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

36.1 %

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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