“St. Louis Blues” Bessie Smith featuring Louis Armstrong/1925

Recording Information

Recording MusicBrainz ID (MBID) c0574bda-0b9c-4233-a201-f20766434c27
Time Signature 4/4
Key D
Duration 193.17 s
Tuning 451.29 Hz
Recording Dates 1925-01-14 - 1925-01-14
Composer(s) William Christopher Handy

Line-up

cornet Louis Armstrong
organ Fred Longshaw
vocal Bessie Smith

Symbolic Staistics From Annotation

Number of Chord Segments 82
Mean BPM 66.4699487498
Mean Harmonic Rhythm 2.573170731707317
Chord Usage Summary
Chord Beats Number Beats % Duration (seconds) Duration %
maj 55 25.7009345794 49.05 25.3921416369
min 25 11.6822429907 21.87 11.3216337941
dom 128 59.8130841121 115.19 59.6314127453
hdim7 0 0.0 0 0.0
dim 3 1.40186915888 2.59 1.34078790702
N 3 1.40186915888 4.47 2.31402391676
unclassified 0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Top Bigrams

(see Bigram in glossary)

../_images/st_louis_blues-1.png

Top N-grams

(see N-gram in glossary)

../_images/st_louis_blues-2.png

Source Annotation

st_louis_blues.json

{
  "tuning": 451.29, 
  "artist": "Bessie Smith; Louis Armstrong", 
  "title": "St. Louis Blues", 
  "metre": "4/4", 
  "sandbox": {
   "path": "$JAZZ_HARMONY_DATA_ROOT//SmithsonianCollectionOfClassicJazz/Volume 1/03 - Bessie Smith - St. Louis Blues.flac", 
   "transcriptions": [],
   "key":"D"
  }, 
  "mbid": "c0574bda-0b9c-4233-a201-f20766434c27", 
  "duration": 193.17,
  "parts":
          [
            {
              "name":"Pickup",
              "beats":
                      [
                        0.68, 1.72, 2.86, 3.88
                      ],
              "chords":
                      [
                        "|A |"
                      ]
            },
            {
              "name":"Vocals Female - AB",
              "beats":
                      [
                        4.42, 4.99, 6.06, 7.12, 8.23, 9.28, 10.35, 11.28, 12.22, 13.23, 14.09, 14.97, 15.89, 16.76, 17.63, 18.55, 19.56,
20.58, 21.55, 22.46, 23.31, 24.22, 25.11, 26.01, 26.89, 27.84, 28.72, 29.63, 30.47, 31.4, 32.36, 33.25, 34.15,
35.16, 36.1, 37.1, 38.02, 39.03, 39.98, 40.93, 41.86, 42.82, 43.72, 44.62, 45.57, 46.51, 47.44, 48.35, 
49.35, 50.38, 51.44, 52.59, 53.12, 54.35, 54.97, 56.46, 56.84, 57.32, 58.36, 59.38, 60.37, 61.23, 62.09, 63.04, 
63.97, 64.91, 65.8, 66.89, 67.78, 68.93, 69.46, 69.7, 70.96, 71.96, 72.89, 73.82, 74.81, 75.72, 76.7, 77.57, 78.53, 
79.41, 80.33, 81.26, 82.12, 83.03, 83.99, 84.87, 85.77, 86.65, 87.53, 88.36, 89.27, 90.13, 91.08, 91.94, 92.87, 93.8,
94.7, 95.58, 96.48, 97.42, 98.35, 99.23, 100.14, 101.08, 101.95, 102.89, 103.77, 104.59, 105.46, 106.41, 107.29, 108.2, 109.17,
110.06, 110.94, 111.85, 112.67, 113.54, 114.47, 115.46, 116.44, 117.39, 118.3, 119.24, 120.21, 121.16, 122.05, 122.89, 123.78,
124.68, 125, 125.63, 126.53, 127.35, 128.17, 128.95, 129.74, 130.62, 131.52, 132.38, 133.26, 134.08, 135.02, 135.88, 136.78, 137.72

                      ],
              "chords":
                      [
                        "|D D:7 |G:7 F |D |D:7 |G:7 |Bb:7 A:aug |D |D:7 D:7 D:7 D:min7 |A:7 |E:7 A:7 |D D:7 D:dim7 A:7 |D E:7 A:7 A:7|",
                        "|D D:7 |G:7 F |D |D:7 |G:7 |Bb:7 A:aug |D |D:7 |A:7 |E:7 A:7 |D D:7 D:dim7 A:7 |D E:7 A:7 A:7|",
                        "|D:min |D:min |A:7 |A:7 |A:7 |A:7 |D:min |D:min |",
                        "|D:min |D:min |A:7 |A:7 |A:7 |A:7 |D E:7 |A |"
                      ]
            },
            {
              "nGme":"Vocals Female - C",
              "beats":
                      [
                       
138.55, 139.33, 140.18, 141.02, 141.82, 142.64, 143.46, 144.27, 145.08, 145.93, 146.8, 147.64, 148.49, 149.34, 150.2, 151.06,
151.96, 152.83, 153.65, 154.53, 155.33, 156.22, 157.06, 157.94, 158.81, 159.61, 160.46, 161.25, 162.07, 163.0, 163.85, 164.71,
165.64, 166.52, 167.38, 168.23, 169.08, 169.91, 170.77, 171.56, 172.4, 173.26, 174.06, 174.97, 175.84, 176.72, 177.62, 178.5,
179.33, 180.24, 181.07, 181.99, 182.81, 183.76, 184.66, 185.52, 186.51, 187.42, 188.38, 189.38, 190.35, 191.31, 192.24
                      ],
              "chords":
                      [
                        "|D G:7 D G:7|D G:7 D G:7|D G:7 D G:7|D G:7 D:7 D:7 |G:7 |G:7 |",
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                      ]
            }
          ]
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