Sonny Rollins “Airegin”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

105.3 s

Position in Track

02:31-04:17

Album Title

Chronicle: The Complete Prestige Recordings (1951 - 1956), CD 3

Label

Prestige (P-012)

Recording Date

1954-06-29

Line Up

Sonny Rollins (ts); Horace Silver (p); Percy Heath (b); Kenny Clarke (dr); Miles Davis (tp)

Style

HARDBOP

Key

Ab-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

35def392-04d1-45ad-8107-148ab890cb2f

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||F-7   |C79#   |F-7   |F79b   |Bb-7   |F79#   |Bb-7   |Bb-7   ||
B1: ||Dbj7   |D-7 G7 |Cj7   |Db-7 Gb7 |Bj7   |C-7 F7 |Bbj7   |Bbj7   |Bb-7   |Eb7   |Abj7   |Gm7b5 C7 ||
A2: ||F-7   |C79#   |F-7   |F79b   |Bb-7   |F79#   |Bb-7   |Bb-7   ||
B2: ||Dbj7   |Dm7b5 G7 |Cm7b5 Gb7 |F7 B7 |Bb-7   |Eb7   |Ab6   |Gm7b5 C79b ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

552

Number of Bars

106 bars

Number of Choruses

3

Mean Tempo

242.6 (UP)

Event Density

5.24 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

5.19 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.28:1

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

18.7 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

49-72 (23)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

37.0 %

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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