“Isfahan” Duke Ellington and His Orchestra/1966

Recording Information

Recording MusicBrainz ID (MBID) a8db791d-8fef-4c0d-9cd3-f8f05a4bf5f2
Time Signature 4/4
Key Db
Duration 255.04 s
Tuning 437.97 Hz
Recording Dates 1966-12-20 - 1966-12-20
Composer(s) Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington

Line-up

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

Symbolic Staistics From Annotation

Number of Chord Segments 56
Mean BPM 58.8143036386
Mean Harmonic Rhythm 4.0
Chord Usage Summary
Chord Beats Number Beats % Duration (seconds) Duration %
maj 100 40.0 100.92 39.5702634881
min 10 4.0 10.04 3.93663739021
dom 106 42.4 106.57 41.7856022585
hdim7 8 3.2 8.02 3.14460476788
dim 0 0.0 0 0.0
N 26 10.4 29.49 11.5628920954
unclassified 0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Top Bigrams

(see Bigram in glossary)

../_images/isfahan-1.png

Top N-grams

(see N-gram in glossary)

../_images/isfahan-2.png

Source Annotation

isfahan.json

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  "artist": "Duke Ellington and His Orchestra", 
  "title": "Isfahan", 
  "metre": "4/4", 
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   "key":"Db"
  }, 
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  "duration": 255.04,
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50.52, 51.49, 52.52, 53.47, 54.51, 55.49, 56.49, 57.53, 58.56, 59.59, 60.62, 61.6, 62.68, 63.63, 64.66, 65.7,
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