Introducing the Jazzomat project - Jazz solo analysis using music information retrieval methods

The JAZZOMAT project investigates the creative processes underlying jazz solo improvisations with the help of statistical and computational methods. To this end, a comprehensive and representative database of jazz solo transcription is being built up, and an open-source Python Library is developed for analysis purposes. Besides the general outline of the project and a description of our core feature module, we present three typical analysis tasks along with some preliminary and exemplary results.