Music as Data Series

Giant Steps: The Fractal Structure of John Coltrane’s Iconic Solo

The distribution of interval-related data in Coltrane’s famous solo is a wonderful example of a power-law in action

Harlan Brothers
7 min readAug 29, 2022

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A frame from an animation of Giant Steps (Image by author)

When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something good for people, to help

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