The jazz standard remains an enduring part of the tradition of jazz performance and
pedagogy. Contemporary jazz scholarship has tended to focus on improvisation as a …

Jazz is a musical tradition that is just over 100 years old; unlike in other Western musical
traditions, improvisation plays a central role in jazz. Modelling the domain of jazz poses …

On January 16, 1938 Benny Goodman brought his swing orchestra to America's venerated
home of European classical music, Carnegie Hall. The resulting concert-widely considered …

" Charlie Parker, Composer is the first assessment of a major jazz composer's oeuvre in its
entirety. Providing analytical discussion of each of Parker's works, this study combines music …

Semantic Web technologies such as RDF, OWL, and SPARQL can be successfully used to
bridge complementary musicological information. In this paper, we describe, compare, and …

Storytelling has proved to be a useful metaphor in jazz commentary and analysis. Within
such literature it is invariably solos, portrayed as discrete cultural articles, that “tell a story” …

Applying Linked Data techniques to musical metadata can facilitate new paths of
musicological inquiry. JazzCats: Jazz Collection of Aggregated Triples is a prototype project …

The ontological status of jazz tunes is a fraught topic that has generated much philosophical
and analytical debate. A given tune may be represented by many lead sheets, each one …

Jazz analysts have long struggled with the ways in which tunes can be accounted for in
analyses of musical structure. When analyzing the u erances jazz musicians make in an …

Gender is an increasingly prominent filter in jazz research. Close inspection shows that even
the presumably neutral territory of key signatures creates gendered reverberations. This …