Dig That Lick (DTL): Analyzing Large-Scale Data for Melodic Patterns in Jazz Performances (Book review)

Abstract

Dig That Lick (DTL) is a multidisciplinary research project that ran from 2017 through 2019 as an awardee of the Trans-Atlantic Platform for the Social Sciences and Humanities Digging into Data Challenge. The project represents a significant international partnership between principal investigator Simon Dixon (Queen Mary University of London, UK), three national project leaders—Hélène-Camille Crayencour (National Center for Scientific Research, France), Martin Pfleiderer (University of Music Franz Liszt, Weimar, Germany), and Gabriel Solis (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)—and an international team of researchers.1 DTL received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (UK), the French National Research Agency, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and the National Endowment for the Humanities...