Woody Shaw “Imagination”

Discographic Information

Instrument

tp

Total Duration

154.8 s

Position in Track

02:47-05:22

Album Title

Imagination

Label

32 Jazz (32090)

Recording Date

1987-06-24

Line Up

Kirk Lightsey (p); Steve Turre (tb); Ray Drummond (b); Carl Allen (dr); Woody Shaw (tp)

Style

POSTBOP

Key

Eb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

LATIN

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

b94a81ed-d5c1-4e21-b0c7-8f9d1a2aff27

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Ebj7 Eo7 |F-7 Bb7 |Ebj7 Ab79 |Gm7b5 C7 |F- C+7 |F-7 Bb7 |G7 C7 |F-7 Bb7 ||
A2: ||Ebj7 Eo7 |F-7   |Ebj7 Abj7 |Gm7b5 C7 |F- C+7 |F-7 Bb7 |Ebj7   |Bb-7 Eb79 ||
B1: ||Abj7 F-7 |A-7 D7 |G-7   |Em7b5 A79b |D-7 G-7 |C-7 F7 |F7   |Bb+7   ||
C1: ||Ebj7 Eo7 |F-7 Bb7 |Ebj7 Ab79 |Gm7b5 C7 |F-7 C+7 |F-7 Bb7 |G7 Db7911# |C7   |F- B7911# |Bbsus79 Bb7 |Eb6 Ebsus |Eb6 Ebsus |Eb6 Ebsus |Eb6 Ebsus |Ebsus   |Ebsus   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

349

Number of Bars

39 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

60.1 (SLOW)

Event Density

2.25 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

8.98 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.06:1

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

47.9 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

55-82 (27)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

42.1 %

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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