visualisation of jazz

Pointed at a paper on "Visual Explorations of Jazz Improvisations" by infosthetics. Visualisation of melodies and harmonies of the three horn solos on All Blues from Miles Davis's Kind Of Blue. The melodic view shows lines on a stave representing the solos with multiple choruses superimposed on top of each other. This quite nicely shows the sparcity and repeated motifs of Miles versus the slightly manic ups and downs of Coltrane. The harmonic view shows, for each bar of the chorus, which notes were played and distinguishes between those in the chord and those outside it.

Some interesting observations from the researchers...you can see how 'Trane starts each chorus with a big ascending phrase...apparently Miles would tell people not to go to the IV chord of a traditional blues and instead go from the G7 to the Gm7 in a modal way. However the harmonic view shows that Miles plays none of the Gm chord but instead plays A,C and E and Coltrane spends most of it playing a C, completely ignoring Miles' advice.

As far as I can tell it is basically a handmade visualisation from a transcript of All Blues, and as Ollie pointed out, these probably aren't particularly hard to come by.

Coinidentally Radio 3's Discovering Music last saturday was a deconstruction of Kind of Blue...