“Big Butter and Egg Man From the West” Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven/1926

Recording Information

Recording MusicBrainz ID (MBID) e3d72af4-c47b-422f-87b6-4218b68d2b7c
Time Signature 4/4
Key G
Duration 180.8 s
Tuning 445.92 Hz
Recording Dates 1926-11-16 - 1929-11-16
Composer(s) Percy Venable

Line-up

clarinet Johnny Dodds
vocal Kid Ory
piano Lil Hardin Armstrong
banjo Johnny St. Cyr
trumpet Louis Armstrong

Symbolic Staistics From Annotation

Number of Chord Segments 102
Mean BPM 197.123893805
Mean Harmonic Rhythm 5.803921568627451
Chord Usage Summary
Chord Beats Number Beats % Duration (seconds) Duration %
maj 222 37.3737373737 66.08 36.5486725664
min 64 10.7744107744 19.1 10.564159292
dom 288 48.4848484848 85.56 47.3230088496
hdim7 0 0.0 0 0.0
dim 18 3.0303030303 5.35 2.95907079646
N 2 0.3367003367 4.71 2.60508849558
unclassified 0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Top Bigrams

(see Bigram in glossary)

../_images/big_butter_and_eggman-1.png

Top N-grams

(see N-gram in glossary)

../_images/big_butter_and_eggman-2.png

Source Annotation

big_butter_and_eggman.json

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