Clifford Brown “George’s Dilemma”

Discographic Information

Instrument

tp

Total Duration

100.7 s

Position in Track

01:07-02:47

Album Title

Brownie - The Complete EmArecy Recordings of Clifford Brown (Disc 9)

Label

Nippon Phonogram Co., Ltd.0 (838 315-2)

Recording Date

1955-02-24

Line Up

Clifford Brown (tp); Harold Land (ts); Richie Powell (p); George Morrow (b); Max Roach (dr)

Style

HARDBOP

Key

Db-min

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

A:LATIN/B:SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

ae5aaf5e-54a0-436e-862c-bfb6e36079e9

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Db-7   |Dj7   |Db-7   |B7   |Db-7   |Db-7   |Eb7 Ab7 |Db-7   ||
A2: ||Db-7   |Dj7   |Db-7   |B7   |Db-7   |Db-7   |Eb7 Ab7 |Db-7   ||
B1: ||Gb-7   |B7   |Ab-7 Aj7 |Ab-7 Go |Gb-7   |B7   |Ej7 Aj7 |Dj7 Eb-7Ab7||
A3: ||Db-7   |Dj7   |Db-7   |B7   |Db-7   |Db-7   |Eb7 Ab7 |Db-7   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

429

Number of Bars

65 bars

Number of Choruses

2

Mean Tempo

154.8 (MEDIUM UP)

Event Density

4.26 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

6.61 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.53:1

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

29.6 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

56-81 (25)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

41.7 %

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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