“Grandpa’s Spells” Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers/1926

Recording Information

Recording MusicBrainz ID (MBID) cc86ea4d-7a0b-443e-85f5-7352313de2e5
Time Signature 4/4
Key C
Duration 175.36 s
Tuning 443.32 Hz
Recording Dates 1926-12-16 - 1926-12-16
Composer(s) Jelly Roll Morton

Line-up

clarinet Omer Simeon
trombone Kid Ory
double bass John Lindsay
piano Jelly Roll Morton
trumpet George Mitchell
guitar Johnny St. Cyr
drums (drum set) Andrew Hilaire
banjo Johnny St. Cyr

Symbolic Staistics From Annotation

Number of Chord Segments 151
Mean BPM 205.976277372
Mean Harmonic Rhythm 3.6887417218543046
Chord Usage Summary
Chord Beats Number Beats % Duration (seconds) Duration %
maj 177 29.4019933555 50.49 28.7921989051
min 12 1.99335548173 3.42 1.95027372263
dom 320 53.1561461794 91.45 52.1498631387
hdim7 0 0.0 0 0.0
dim 48 7.97342192691 13.68 7.80109489051
N 45 7.47508305648 16.32 9.30656934307
unclassified 0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Top Bigrams

(see Bigram in glossary)

../_images/grandpas_spells-1.png

Top N-grams

(see N-gram in glossary)

../_images/grandpas_spells-2.png

Source Annotation

grandpas_spells.json

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  "artist": "Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers", 
  "title": "Grandpa's Spells", 
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   "key":"C"
  }, 
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  "duration": 175.36,
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37.0, 37.28, 37.57, 37.86, 38.15, 38.43, 38.72, 39.0, 39.28, 39.58, 39.87, 40.15, 40.43, 40.71, 41.0, 41.28
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