Hacker News with Generative AI: Jazz

The Real Book (2021) (99percentinvisible.org)
Since the mid-1970s, almost every jazz musician has owned a copy of the same book. It has a peach-colored cover, a chunky, 1970s-style logo, and a black plastic binding. It’s delightfully homemade-looking—like it was printed by a bunch of teenagers at a Kinkos. And inside is the sheet music for hundreds of common jazz tunes—also known as jazz “standards”—all meticulously notated by hand. It’s called the Real Book.
Herbie Hancock on playing with Miles Davis, AI, and why the piano makes him cry (bbc.com)
Herbie Hancock is an all-time jazz great, so it is reassuring to hear that he suffers from the same modern day procrastination problems as the rest of us mere mortals.
Using Tonnetz Tone Mesh to Understand Jazz Harmony (jazz-library.com)
Researchers say that roughly 65% of people are visual learners. For those people, visualizing concepts help build a more solid understanding of how something works. Much in the same way a chart helps us understand a complex spreadsheet of data, a Tonnetz gives us a simple visual of the complex mathematics behind music.
John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music (openculture.com)
Physi­cist and sax­o­phon­ist Stephon Alexan­der has argued in his many pub­lic lec­tures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Ein­stein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in com­mon. Alexan­der in par­tic­u­lar draws our atten­tion to the so-called “Coltrane cir­cle,” which resem­bles what any musi­cian will rec­og­nize as the “Cir­cle of Fifths,” but incor­po­rates Coltrane’s own inno­va­tions.
Stanley Jordan – Eleanor Rigby – 8/23/1986 – Newport Jazz Festival (Official) [video] (youtube.com)
Ford Dabney might have been the first jazz star (honest-broker.com)
Why was the 1959 album "Kind of Blue" by Miles Davis such a big deal? (reddit.com)
The Sun Ra Arkestra's Maestro Hits One Hundred (newyorker.com)