“Moten Swing” Bennie Moten and his Kansas City Orchestra/1932

Recording Information

Recording MusicBrainz ID (MBID) b56a075e-8c13-4ec7-8b60-02eff2202341
Time Signature 4/4
Key Eb
Duration 205.88 s
Tuning 442.07 Hz
Recording Dates 1932-12-13 - 1932-12-13
Composer(s) Count Basie, Eddie Durham

Line-up

guitar and trombone Eddie Durham
alto saxophone and clarinet Eddie Barefield
membranophone Willie McWashington
piano Count Basie
trumpet Hot Lips Page, Prince “Dee” Stewart, Joe Keyes
tenor saxophone Ben Webster
double bass Walter Page
acoustic guitar Leroy “Buster” Berry
alto saxophone and baritone saxophone Jack Washington
trombone Dan Minor

Symbolic Staistics From Annotation

Number of Chord Segments 195
Mean BPM 192.927919176
Mean Harmonic Rhythm 3.3846153846153846
Chord Usage Summary
Chord Beats Number Beats % Duration (seconds) Duration %
maj 192 29.003021148 58.57 28.4486108413
min 120 18.1268882175 36.5 17.7287740431
dom 338 51.0574018127 103.0 50.0291431902
hdim7 0 0.0 0 0.0
dim 10 1.51057401813 3.05 1.48144550223
N 2 0.302114803625 4.76 2.31202642316
unclassified 0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Top Bigrams

(see Bigram in glossary)

../_images/moten_swing-1.png

Top N-grams

(see N-gram in glossary)

../_images/moten_swing-2.png

Source Annotation

moten_swing.json

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  "artist": "Bennie Moten and his Kansas City Orchestra", 
  "title": "Moten Swing", 
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  "duration": 205.88,
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71.51, 71.82, 72.12, 72.43, 72.74, 73.04, 73.35, 73.65, 73.96, 74.26, 74.57, 74.87, 75.18, 75.47, 75.78, 76.09
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91.06, 91.37, 91.68, 91.99, 92.3, 92.61, 92.91, 93.22, 93.52, 93.82, 94.12, 94.42, 94.73, 95.04, 95.35, 95.65,
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110.79, 111.1, 111.41, 111.72, 112.02, 112.33, 112.64, 112.95, 113.26, 113.57, 113.87, 114.17, 114.49, 114.8, 115.11, 115.42
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