Publications

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Trade-offs in Coordination Strategies for Duet Jazz Performances Subject to Network Delay and Jitter

Published in Music Perception, 2024

We show that five duos of professional jazz musicians adopt diverse strategies when confronted by the difficulties of coordinating performances over a network — difficulties that are not exclusive to networked performance, but are also present in other situations (such as when coordinating performances over large physical spaces).

Recommended citation: Cheston H, Cross I, & Harrison PMC. Trade-offs in Coordination Strategies for Duet Jazz Performances Subject to Network Delay and Jitter. Music Perception. 2024; 42(1), 48–72. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2024.42.1.48

Jazz Trio Database: Automated Timing Annotation of Jazz Piano Trio Recordings Processed Using Audio Source Separation

Published in Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval, 2024

We introduce the Jazz Trio Database, a dataset of 45 hours of jazz piano trio recordings with automatically generated annotations for every performer (piano soloist, bass and drums accompaniment) in the ensemble.

Recommended citation: Cheston H, Schlichting JL, Cross I, & Harrison PMC. Jazz Trio Database: Automated Annotation of Jazz Piano Trio Recordings Processed Using Audio Source Separation. Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval. 2024; 7(1), 144–158. https://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.186

Rhythmic Qualities of Jazz Improvisation Predict Performer Identity and Style in Source-Separated Audio Recordings.

Published in Royal Society Open Science, 2024

We demonstrate that a supervised learning model trained solely on rhythmic features extracted from 300 source-separated audio recordings of jazz pianists was capable of identifying the performer in 52% of cases, over five times better than chance.

Recommended citation: Cheston, H., Schlichting, J. S., Cross, I., & Harrison, P. M. C. Rhythmic Qualities of Jazz Improvisation Predict Performer Identity and Style in Source-Separated Audio Recordings. Royal Society Open Science. 2024 (accepted, subject to minor revisions) https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/txy2f

Huw Cheston

Publications

Trade-offs in Coordination Strategies for Duet Jazz Performances Subject to Network Delay and Jitter

Jazz Trio Database: Automated Timing Annotation of Jazz Piano Trio Recordings Processed Using Audio Source Separation

Rhythmic Qualities of Jazz Improvisation Predict Performer Identity and Style in Source-Separated Audio Recordings.