Jazz et tourisme

Construction et peuplement de structures hiérarchiques de concepts dans le domaine du e-tourisme

On Jazz

The question of what is meant by "jazz" seems to mock the clear-cut definitive answer. Just as the historical origins of the form arc disappearing into the fog of the recent past, so its range is disappearing within its ambivalent use at the present moment. For the purpose of providing a crude orientation, one could concede that it is that type of dance music--whether it be used in an unmediate...

Studio Music and Jazz

The mission of the Studio Music and Jazz Instrumental Degree Programs is to: (1) prepare jazz instrumentalists to enter the music profession or further jazz studies; (2) identify, recruit, and retain high quality students who seek to pursue studio/jazz performance as a career; (3) foster faculty creativity and performance which serves as a role model for students; (4) develop, and revise course...

JIG: Jazz Improvisation Generator

This article presents JIG, a system for improvisation on jazz ballads. It was described previously in a Master’s Thesis [4]. JIG generates so called ’formulaic’ improvisations. It uses constraints, in combination with probability-driven randomness to generate note-attributes. In this way, numerous different improvisations can be generated on a single song. JIG has been incorporated in SaxEx, a ...

Community Structure in Jazz

In the last years the physics community has devoted a strong effort to the study of social networks. The availability of large databases containing information on the collaborations between movie actors, scientists, etc. has allowed for many statistical properties of the networks to be characterized. These studies have revealed that some characteristics appear to be general for these kind of ne...