“Cotton Tail” Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra/1940

Recording Information

Recording MusicBrainz ID (MBID) a5fae57b-d0a7-4cc8-958d-f90600c30eb8
Time Signature 4/4
Key Bb
Duration 191.6 s
Tuning 439.66 Hz
Recording Dates 1940-05-04 - 1940-05-04
Composer(s) Duke Ellington

Line-up

trombone Joe “Tricky Sam” Nanton, Lawrence Brown
alto saxophone Otto Hardwick, Johnny Hodges
trumpet Cootie Williams, Wallace Jones
valve trombone Juan Tizol
guitar Fred Guy
double bass Jimmy Blanton
baritone saxophone Harry Carney
clarinet Barney Bigard
cornet Rex Stewart
piano Duke Ellington
drums (drum set) Sonny Greer
tenor saxophone Ben Webster, Barney Bigard

Symbolic Staistics From Annotation

Number of Chord Segments 282
Mean BPM 237.369519833
Mean Harmonic Rhythm 2.6808510638297873
Chord Usage Summary
Chord Beats Number Beats % Duration (seconds) Duration %
maj 198 26.1213720317 49.37 25.767223382
min 218 28.7598944591 54.5 28.4446764092
dom 306 40.3693931398 76.02 39.6764091858
hdim7 0 0.0 0 0.0
dim 34 4.48548812665 8.41 4.38935281837
N 2 0.263852242744 3.3 1.72233820459
unclassified 0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Top Bigrams

(see Bigram in glossary)

../_images/cotton_tail-1.png

Top N-grams

(see N-gram in glossary)

../_images/cotton_tail-2.png

Source Annotation

cotton_tail.json

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