“Cotton Tail” Ella Fitzgerald with the Duke Ellington Orchestra/1965

Recording Information

Recording MusicBrainz ID (MBID) 96cd1df4-1a44-4996-98a5-8449796b2598
Time Signature 4/4
Key Bb
Duration 220.92 s
Tuning 433.74 Hz
Recording Dates 1965-10-19 - 1965-10-19
Composer(s) Duke Ellington

Line-up

trombone Buster Cooper, Lawrence Brown
alto saxophone Johnny Hodges
bass trombone Chuck Connors
alto saxophone and clarinet Russell Procope
double bass John Lamb
baritone saxophone Harry Carney
membranophone Louie Bellson
piano Duke Ellington, Jimmy Jones
trumpet Cootie Williams, Mercer Ellington, Herbie Jones, William “Cat” Anderson
tenor saxophone Paul Gonsalves
clarinet and tenor saxophone Jimmy Hamilton
vocal Ella Fitzgerald

Symbolic Staistics From Annotation

Number of Chord Segments 388
Mean BPM 291.689299294
Mean Harmonic Rhythm 2.670103092783505
Chord Usage Summary
Chord Beats Number Beats % Duration (seconds) Duration %
maj 260 24.208566108 53.12 24.0449031324
min 232 21.6014897579 46.68 21.1298207496
dom 498 46.3687150838 100.03 45.278833967
hdim7 0 0.0 0 0.0
dim 46 4.28305400372 9.19 4.15987687851
N 38 3.53817504655 11.9 5.3865652725
unclassified 0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Top Bigrams

(see Bigram in glossary)

../_images/cotton_tail_fitzgerald-1.png

Top N-grams

(see N-gram in glossary)

../_images/cotton_tail_fitzgerald-2.png

Source Annotation

cotton_tail_fitzgerald.json

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  "artist": "Ella Fitzgerald; Duke Ellington Orchestra", 
  "title": "Cotton Tail", 
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