2026-06-24 18:17 UTC
The map's legend, AI-generated from a very generic prompt, of course:
🔵 Blue — Bebop / cool / hard-bop (Parker, Gillespie, Coltrane) · right
🟢 Green — Post-bop / fusion / contemporary (Miles Davis, Hancock, Marsalis) · center
🔴 Red — Free jazz / avant-garde / European improv (Ornette, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra) · upper-left
🟠 Orange — Swing-era popular / Dixieland (Goodman, Armstrong, Glenn Miller) · lower-center
🟣 Purple — Classic swing & vocal big-band (Ellington, Basie, Billie Holiday) · bottom
🩷 Pink — Jazz-adjacent pop / soul / vocalists (Quincy Jones, Ray Charles, Norah Jones) · center
🟦 Cyan — Nordic / ECM scene (Garbarek, Rypdal) · the semi-detached island top-right Tiny national scenes (Japanese, Romanian, Central-European) appear as small grey satellites.
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