Clifford Brown “A Night in Tunisia”

Discographic Information

Instrument

tp

Total Duration

120.2 s

Position in Track

03:04-05:04

Album Title

Quadromania Jazz Edition, Clifford Brown, Easy Living, CD 4

Label

Membran International ()

Recording Date

1954-02-21

Line Up

Clifford Brown (tp); Lou Donaldson (as); Horace Silver (p); Curley Russell (b); Art Blakey (dr)

Style

HARDBOP

Key

D-min

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Eb7   |D-6   |Eb7   |D-6   |Eb7   |D-6   |Em7b5 A7 |D-6   ||
A2: ||Eb7   |D-6   |Eb7   |D-6   |Eb7   |D-6   |Em7b5 A7 |D-6   ||
B1: ||Am7b5   |D79b   |G-7   |G-7   |Cm7b5   |C79b   |Fj7   |Em7b5 A7 ||
A3: ||Eb7   |D-6   |Eb7   |D-6   |Eb7   |D-6   |Em7b5 A7 |D-6   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

624

Number of Bars

95 bars

Number of Choruses

3

Mean Tempo

189.7 (UP)

Event Density

5.19 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

6.57 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.62:1

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

27.4 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

57-90 (33)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

40.5 %

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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