Charlie Parker “K.C. Blues”

Discographic Information

Instrument

as

Total Duration

51.0 s

Position in Track

00:26-01:17

Album Title

Boss Bird Disc 4

Label

Proper Records (P1284)

Recording Date

1951-01-17

Line Up

Miles Davis (tp); Charlie Parker (as); Walter Bishop (p); Teddy Kotick (b); Max Roach (dr)

Style

BEBOP

Key

C-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

BLUES

MusicBrainz ID

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||C7   |F7   |C7   |C7   |F7   |F7   |C7   |E-7 A7 |D-7   |G7   |C7 A7 |D-7 G7 ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

196

Number of Bars

25 bars

Number of Choruses

2

Mean Tempo

118.3 (MEDIUM)

Event Density

3.84 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

7.78 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.88:1

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

45.4 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

53-78 (25)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

45.4 %

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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