“Black Water Blues” Bessie Smith and James P. Johnson/1927

Recording Information

Recording MusicBrainz ID (MBID) 631a1e8b-184d-4967-b1ae-946c3e0a53c9
Time Signature 4/4
Key A
Duration 200.71 s
Tuning 437.58 Hz
Recording Dates 1927-02-17 - 1927-02-17
Composer(s) Bessie Smith

Line-up

vocal Bessie Smith
piano James P. Johnson

Symbolic Staistics From Annotation

Number of Chord Segments 71
Mean BPM 103.432813512
Mean Harmonic Rhythm 4.845070422535211
Chord Usage Summary
Chord Beats Number Beats % Duration (seconds) Duration %
maj 164 47.3988439306 93.44 46.554730706
min 14 4.04624277457 7.95 3.96093866773
dom 166 47.9768786127 94.34 47.0031388571
hdim7 0 0.0 0 0.0
dim 0 0.0 0 0.0
N 2 0.578034682081 4.98 2.48119176922
unclassified 0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Top Bigrams

(see Bigram in glossary)

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Top N-grams

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../_images/black_water_blues-2.png

Source Annotation

black_water_blues.json

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  "tuning": 437.58, 
  "artist": "Bessie Smith; James P. Johnson", 
  "title": "Black Water Blues", 
  "metre": "4/4", 
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   "transcriptions": [],
   "key":"A"
  }, 
  "mbid": "631a1e8b-184d-4967-b1ae-946c3e0a53c9", 
  "duration": 200.71,
  "parts":
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51.71, 52.31, 52.89, 53.49, 54.07, 54.66, 55.23, 55.8, 56.37, 56.93, 57.5, 58.07, 58.65, 59.22, 59.79, 60.35
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