Coleman Hawkins “Perdido”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

89.0 s

Position in Track

00:46-02:15

Album Title

Quadromania Jazz Edition, Coleman Hawkins, Dear Old Southland, CD 3

Label

Membran Music Ltd. (22243944)

Recording Date

1950

Line Up

Rex Stewart (cor); Tyree Glenn (tb); Coleman Hawkins (ts); Claude Hopkins (p); Billy Bauer (g); Arvell Shaw (b); Cozy Cole (dr)

Style

SWING

Key

Bb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

9b41dfd1-4eab-4edd-a703-d9a277c408d8

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

Download MIDI File

Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||C-7   |F7   |Bb6   |D-7 G7 |C-7   |F7   |Bb6   |D-7 G7 ||
A2: ||C-7   |F7   |Bb6   |D-7 G7 |C-7   |F7   |Bb6   |Bb6   ||
B1: ||D7   |D7   |G79   |G+7   |C7   |C7   |F7   |F7   ||
A3: ||C-7   |F7   |Bb6   |D-7 G7 |C-7   |F7   |Bb6   |D-7 G7 ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

468

Number of Bars

66 bars

Number of Choruses

2

Mean Tempo

177.5 (MEDIUM UP)

Event Density

5.26 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

7.11 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.67:1

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

17.3 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

46-77 (31)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

39.7 %

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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