. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 11.

Published in final edited form as: Music Percept. 2012 Dec;30(2):161–185. doi: 10.1525/mp.2012.30.2.161

Table 3.

Five Varimax-Rotated Principal Components Derived from 50 Jazz Music Excerpts

Artist	Piece	Principal component
Artist	Piece	M	U	S	I	C
Kenny G	Forever In Love^a	*.84*	.07	.09	−.01	.12
Mezzoforte	After Hours	*.82*	.01	.15	.01	.16
Earl Klugh	Long Ago & Far Away^a	*.81*	.11	.09	.08	.18
Kenny G	Sister Rose	*.79*	.06	.19	.02	.12
Joe Sample	In All My Wildest Dreams^a	*.72*	.12	.12	.02	.30
Bob James	Angela	*.72*	.12	.16	.03	.31
Norah Jones	Come Away With Me^a	*.54*	.35	−.04	.05	.25
Sade	Smooth Operator^a	*.54*	.17	.01	−.06	.47
Bessie Smith	The St. Louis Blues^a	−.06	*.78*	.18	.00	.05
Louis Armstrong	Gut Bucket Blues	.03	*.78*	.25	.03	.07
Billie Holiday	All Of Me	.09	*.76*	.25	−.14	.16
Cab Calloway & his Orchestra	Minnie The Moocher	−.11	*.74*	.25	−.02	.15
Django Reinhardt	Daphne^a	.17	*.72*	.20	.08	.04
Joe Liggins & his Honeydrippers	The Honeydripper^a	.10	*.72*	.41	.03	.13
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong	Cheek To Cheek	.31	*.67*	.27	−.11	.19
Amos Easton (Bumble Bee Slim)	Ida Red	.06	*.67*	.14	.07	.34
Chet Atkins (& Merle Travis)	Nine Pound Hammer^a	.21	*.64*	.14	.28	.03
Jacques Montagne	Charmaine	.18	*.63*	.45	.10	.06
Paul Simon	Hobo’s Blues	.25	*.61*	.18	.21	.04
Michael Civisca	Moonglow	.42	*.55*	.24	−.10	.09
Jazz Futures	Public Eye^a	.03	.18	*.85*	.10	.17
Pharoah Sanders	Origin^a	.12	.12	*.85*	.11	.16
Pharoah Sanders	Moments Notice^a	.23	.18	*.82*	.05	.08
Jacques Loussier	Italian Concerto: Presto^a	.14	.24	*.82*	.08	.11
Cannonball “Julian” Adderley	What Is This Thing Called Love? ^a	.14	.32	*.82*	.00	.08
Derrick Shezbie	Softly As In A Morning Sunrise^a	.20	.31	*.78*	−.01	.18
Charlie Parker	Ko Ko	.11	.29	*.78*	−.02	.09
Joe Henderson	Junk Blues	−.04	.15	*.74*	.16	.14
Miles Davis	Directions I	−.08	.11	*.73*	.22	.15
Bud Powell	Tempus Fugit (Tempus Fugue-it)	.14	.39	*.70*	.05	.06
Gary Burton Quintet	Ictus/Syndrome	.28	.14	*.69*	.08	.14
Patrick Saussois & Alma Sinti	Tune Up^a	.23	.40	*.62*	.13	.15
Miles Davis	John McLaughlin^a	.06	.20	*.58*	.41	.19
Michael Franks	My Foolish Heart	.41	.38	*.58*	−.10	.06
Buddy Rich	The Nitty Gritty^a	.12	.27	*.52*	.30	.29
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross	Cloudburst	−.18	.31	*.42*	.10	.39
Royal Crown Revue	Park’s Place^a	−.09	.40	*.41*	.19	.37
Jeff Beck	Blue Wind	.01	.10	.15	*.80*	.12
Stanley Clarke	Rock’n Roll Jelly^a	−.01	.00	.15	*.79*	.11
noJazz	Jungle Out	.07	.01	.30	*.56*	.38
Lidy Arbogast	Love to Love You Baby^a	.29	.09	.05	.17	*.73*
Ben Sidran	Nothing Like The Sound Of Bebop^a	.18	.10	.10	.18	*.73*
Herb Albert	Rise	.24	.15	.17	.03	*.70*
Us3	Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)	.10	.21	.09	−.05	*.70*
St. Germain	Pont Des Arts^a	.43	−.13	.14	.03	*.64*
Candy Dulfer	Sax-A-Go-Go^a	.25	.08	.26	.25	*.63*
St. Germain	Rose Rouge	.10	.16	.46	.10	*.55*
John Handy	Hard At Work^a	.42	.31	.18	.09	*.52*
noJazz	Pick Up	.36	−.01	.35	.15	*.51*
Room Eleven	One Of These Days	.37	.24	.15	.04	*.50*

Note. M = Mellow; U = Unpretentious; S = Sophisticated; I = Intense; C = Contemporary.

Piece was among the 25 administered to the undergraduate-student sample. Each piece’s largest factor loading is in italics.

Factor loadings ≥ |.40| are in bold typeface.