Fig. 7: Improvised jazz solos.
Multitaper PSD estimation of (A) David Liebman’s solo over “Begin the Beguine” and (B) Joe Lovano’s solo on “I Can’t Get Started”. The shaded grey area represents a 95% confidence interval based on the fitted PSD (grey line). Jazz solos show a similar PSD structure as classical music, yet with shorter cutoff periods τc. Example (A) seems to indicate a pure PL shape, but the solo is relatively short such that the large bandwidth W precludes the observation of a plateau.
