Open data

Chord chart dataset

A free download of the 88 chord charts on this site that are derived from the Weimar Jazz Database.

Download

• chords-wjazzd.csv — one row per tune; bars separated by |, sections by ||.
• chords-wjazzd.json — the same charts with sections and bars as arrays.

What is in it

Fields: tune slug, title, key, form, bar count, the bar-by-bar chords, and source. Only charts extracted from WJazzD (source: wjazzd) are included; editorial analyses and unreviewed drafts are not.

License

This database is made available under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. You may share, adapt, and use it, provided you attribute it, share adapted databases under the ODbL, and keep it open.

Credit

Contains information from the Weimar Jazz Database (WJazzD), Jazzomat Research Project, University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar, made available under the ODbL 1.0. Chords come from the database's per-solo chord-change annotations.