Hacker News with Generative AI: Jazz

What Is This Thing Called Swing? (ds.mpg.de)
Jazz must swing - jazz musicians agree on that. However, even a century after the beginnings of jazz, there is still no general agreement what exactly constitutes the swing feel. With a dedicated experiment and data analyses on more than 450 well-known jazz solos, we have tried to unravel some secrets of swing.

Music, Jazz, Research, Data Analysis

8 points by Tomte 40 days ago | 1 comments

The New Weird Virtuosos Making Jazz for the Post-Internet Age (pitchfork.com)
Led by artists like DOMi and JD Beck, a generation of rising players is infusing jazz with absurdist online irreverence. But are they playing jazz at all?

Jazz, Music, Generation Z, Internet Culture, Innovation

7 points by zeech 79 days ago | 4 comments

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.

Music, Jazz, Culture, History

156 points by Tomte 91 days ago | 41 comments

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.

Music, Jazz, Artificial Intelligence, Interviews

9 points by paulpauper 95 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Music Theory, Jazz, Visual Learning

7 points by brudgers 103 days ago | 1 comments

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.

Music, Mathematics, Jazz, Physics

4 points by geox 188 days ago | 1 comments

Stanley Jordan – Eleanor Rigby – 8/23/1986 – Newport Jazz Festival (Official) [video] (youtube.com)

Music, Jazz, Video

4 points by keepamovin 356 days ago | 0 comments

Ford Dabney might have been the first jazz star (honest-broker.com)

Jazz, Music, History

91 points by Khaine 357 days ago | 8 comments

Why was the 1959 album "Kind of Blue" by Miles Davis such a big deal? (reddit.com)