There's a little work on that part of jazz too, though not much. My undergrad supervisor built a solo-trading jazz system about 15 years ago for her PhD thesis.

There's a little work on that part of jazz too, though not much. My undergrad supervisor built a solo-trading jazz system about 15 years ago for her PhD thesis. Solo trading isn't the full extent of jazz improvisation, but is at least getting at one of the collaborative parts of jazz. It's now slightly dated, but I think still good work, and could probably sound a lot better if the same basic approach was taken but updated with today's hardware and algorithms. Thesis: http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/anon/2001/abstracts/01-138.html http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/anon/2001/abstrac... A conference paper: http://www.aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/2000/AAAI00-100.pdf http://www.aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/2000/AAAI00-100.pdf