Sonny Rollins “Tenor Madness”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

130.6 s

Position in Track

02:08-04:19

Album Title

1956

Label

CD Company Italy (CD53061)

Recording Date

1956-06-22

Line Up

Sonny Rollins (ts); Tommy Flanagan (p); DougWatkins (b); Max Roach (dr); John Coltrane (ts)

Style

HARDBOP

Key

Bb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

BLUES

MusicBrainz ID

2cf1c0e0-de85-4532-acff-887ffac75499

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Bb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Eb7   |Eb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |C-7   |F7   |Bb7   |Bb7   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

507

Number of Bars

96 bars

Number of Choruses

8

Mean Tempo

175.6 (MEDIUM UP)

Event Density

3.88 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

5.3 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.6:1

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

39.6 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

44-74 (30)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

42.0 %

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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