Chet Baker “Long Ago and Far Away”

Discographic Information

Instrument

tp

Total Duration

45.7 s

Position in Track

00:50-01:36

Album Title

Let’s Get Lost

Label

Giants of Jazz (CD 53100 AAD)

Recording Date

1955-03-07

Line Up

Chet Baker (tp); Russ Freeman (p); Carson Smith (b); Bob Neel (dr)

Style

COOL

Key

G-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

334dc4be-0b25-44aa-b2ed-9f6a8020505d

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||G6 E-7 |A-7 D7 |Gj7 E-7 |A-7 D7 |G6 E-7 |A-7 D7 |G6 E7 |A-7 D7 ||
B1: ||Bb6 G-7 |C-7 F7 |Bbj7   |A7   |Dj7   |B-7   |A-7   |D7   ||
A2: ||G6 E-7 |A-7 D7 |Gj7 E-7 |A-7 D7 |G6 E-7 |A-7 D7 |G6 E7 |A-7 C7 ||
C1: ||D-7   |G7   |Cj7   |C-7 F7 |G6 Bbo |A-7 D7 |G6   |A-7 D7 ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

171

Number of Bars

34 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

177.5 (MEDIUM UP)

Event Density

3.74 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

5.05 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.22:1

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

Metrical Centroid

3

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

Syncopicity

24.6 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

57-80 (23)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

38.6 %

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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