JazzSAMBA: A Synchronous and Asynchronous Multi-take Band Audio Dataset of Jazz Standards for Live Music Models

Abstract:Machine learning has made strong progress on music tasks, both as assistive tools and as creative partners. However, most systems train on multitrack corpora that emphasize pop and rock. Jazz, with improvisation at the core of its practice, still lacks a well-annotated corpus of clean per-stem combo recordings on standards. We introduce JazzSAMBA (Jazz Synchronous and Asynchronous Multi-take Band Audio) to fill this gap: the first originally recorded jazz-combo multitrack dataset of standards with asynchronous (overdubbed) and synchronous (live ensemble) protocols, preferred and alternate takes chosen by the musicians, and timed annotations for bars, chords, sections, and soloists. JazzSAMBA covers 76 standards by eight musicians on drums, bass, piano, trumpet, and saxophone, with per-stem audio, mixtures, and MIDI. It can support chart-conditioned accompaniment, combo source separation, and form-aware music information retrieval. We demonstrate the dataset on two tasks: a jazz combo source-separation baseline and a chart-conditioned accompaniment ablation. The dataset, code, and samples are linked from the project demo page.

Sound (cs.SD); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Multimedia (cs.MM); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)

arXiv:2609.34931 [cs.SD]

(or arXiv:2609.34931v1 [cs.SD] for this version)

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