Sidney Bechet “Really the Blues”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ss

Total Duration

81.3 s

Position in Track

02:09-03:30

Album Title

The Cradle Of Jazz -Sidney Bechet - Chant In The Night CD 1

Label

Trumpets of Jericho Ltd. (20.3010-HI)

Recording Date

1938-11-28

Line Up

Sidney Bechet (ss); Tommy Ladnier (tp); Milton Mezz Mezzrow (cl, ts); Cliff Jackson (p); Teddy Bunn (g); Elmer James (b); Manzie Johnson (dr)

Style

TRADITIONAL

Key

Bb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

TWOBEAT

Tonality Class

BLUES

MusicBrainz ID

1c57643c-2de7-4f69-84fa-300faf0503ae

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Bb7   |Eb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Eb7   |Eb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |F7   |F7   |Bb7 Eb7 |Bb7 F7 ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

254

Number of Bars

24 bars

Number of Choruses

2

Mean Tempo

70.6 (SLOW)

Event Density

3.13 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

10.62 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.5:1

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

38.2 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

60-82 (22)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

42.9 %

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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