Woody Shaw “Steve’s Blues”

Discographic Information

Instrument

tp

Total Duration

69.6 s

Position in Track

01:31-02:41

Album Title

Imagination

Label

32 Jazz (32090)

Recording Date

1987-06-24

Line Up

Kirk Lightsey (p); Steve Turre (tb); Ray Drummond (b); Carl Allen (dr); Woody Shaw (tp)

Style

POSTBOP

Key

F-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

BLUES

MusicBrainz ID

70c4f6eb-b0f4-4e64-aee1-906ac42d3301

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||F7   |Bb7   |F7   |F7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |F7   |A-7 D7 |G-7   |C7   |F7   |C7   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

296

Number of Bars

60 bars

Number of Choruses

5

Mean Tempo

205.5 (UP)

Event Density

4.26 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

4.96 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.52:1

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

30.1 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

57-84 (27)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

49.7 %

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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