Don Ellis “Out of Nowhere”

Discographic Information

Instrument

tp

Total Duration

54.3 s

Position in Track

00:45-01:40

Album Title

Giants of Jazz: Don Ellis featuring Paul Bley, Steve Swallow, Gary Peacock, Nick Martins, Jaki Byard, Ron Carter and Charlie Persip

Label

Sarabandas srl (Giants of Jazz) (CD 53262)

Recording Date

1961-04-21

Line Up

Don Ellis (tp); Paul Bley (p); Steve Swallow (b)

Style

POSTBOP

Key

G-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

25f41a68-29ee-43d2-9f69-bedd85ee8c12

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Gj7   |Gj7   |Bb-7   |Eb7   |Gj7   |Gj7   |B-7   |E79b   ||
B1: ||A-7   |E79b   |A-7   |A-7   |Eb7   |Eb7   |Dsus7   |D79b   ||
A2: ||Gj7   |Gj7   |Bb-7   |Eb7   |Gj7   |Gj7   |B-7   |E79b   ||
C1: ||A-7   |E79b   |A-7   |C-6   |B-7 Bbo |A-7 D7 |G   |G   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

229

Number of Bars

34 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

151.9 (MEDIUM UP)

Event Density

4.22 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

6.66 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.8:1

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

Metrical Centroid

4

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

Syncopicity

45.0 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

55-81 (26)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

51.1 %

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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