“Lester Leaps In” Count Basie and the Kansas City 7/1939

Recording Information

Recording MusicBrainz ID (MBID) 89b0b7f7-564a-4ae9-9402-5c5576ac2f9d
Time Signature 4/4
Key Bb
Duration 195.37 s
Tuning 438.53 Hz
Recording Dates 1939-09-05 - 1939-09-05
Composer(s) Lester Young

Line-up

tenor saxophone Lester Young
trombone Dicky Wells
double bass Walter Page
piano Count Basie
trumpet Buck Clayton
guitar Freddie Green
drums (drum set) Jo Jones

Symbolic Staistics From Annotation

Number of Chord Segments 264
Mean BPM 241.388135333
Mean Harmonic Rhythm 2.662878787878788
Chord Usage Summary
Chord Beats Number Beats % Duration (seconds) Duration %
maj 191 24.3002544529 47.08 24.0978655884
min 194 24.6819338422 47.4 24.2616573681
dom 286 36.3867684478 69.97 35.81409633
hdim7 0 0.0 0 0.0
dim 32 4.07124681934 7.9 4.04360956135
N 83 10.5597964377 23.02 11.7827711522
unclassified 0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Top Bigrams

(see Bigram in glossary)

../_images/lester_leaps_in-1.png

Top N-grams

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../_images/lester_leaps_in-2.png

Source Annotation

lester_leaps_in.json

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  "title": "Lester Leaps In", 
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