“When Lights Are Low” Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra/1939

Recording Information

Recording MusicBrainz ID (MBID) be26b916-d04f-44fd-8ec3-47586711b4dd
Time Signature 4/4
Key Ab
Duration 136.29 s
Tuning 444.75 Hz
Recording Dates 1939-09-11 - 1939-09-11
Composer(s) Benny Carter

Line-up

tenor saxophone Coleman Hawkins, Leon “Chu” Berry, Ben Webster
alto saxophone Benny Carter
double bass Milt Hinton
piano Clyde Hart
trumpet Dizzy Gillespie
guitar Charlie Christian
drums (drum set) Cozy Cole
vibraphone Lionel Hampton

Symbolic Staistics From Annotation

Number of Chord Segments 167
Mean BPM 189.302223201
Mean Harmonic Rhythm 2.37125748502994
Chord Usage Summary
Chord Beats Number Beats % Duration (seconds) Duration %
maj 142 33.023255814 43.18 31.6824418519
min 90 20.9302325581 27.28 20.01614205
dom 146 33.9534883721 44.24 32.4601951721
hdim7 18 4.18604651163 5.45 3.99882603272
dim 0 0.0 0 0.0
N 34 7.90697674419 16.14 11.8423948932
unclassified 0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Top Bigrams

(see Bigram in glossary)

../_images/when_lights_are_low-1.png

Top N-grams

(see N-gram in glossary)

../_images/when_lights_are_low-2.png

Source Annotation

when_lights_are_low.json

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  "title": "When Lights Are Low", 
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