We describe our approach for generating expressive music performances of monophonic Jazz melodies. It consists of three components: (a) a melodic transcription component which extracts a set of acoustic features from monophonic recordings, (b) a machine learning component which induces an expressive transformation model from the set of extracted acoustic features, and (c) a melody synthesis com...

On March 28, 1965, a benefit concert for the newly formed Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School was held at the Village Gate in New York City. Arranged by LeRoi Jones, founder of the organization and influential Black Arts Movement writer who later changed his name to Amiri Baraka, this event represents an historic confluence of dominant figures in the so-called “avant-garde” jazz movement of the...

This article analyses the development and characteristics of contemporary jazz scene in Northern Ireland with a special focus on Belfast. Jazz was introduced early 20th century when country fought for its independence, leading to partition 1921. In Irish Free State, music originally seen as subversive within morally conservative state, while Ireland, traditional form firmly rooted until 1970s. ...