Source rights and provenance

Published corpus

The demo uses traceable snapshot 2026-08-24-80807978346e, built from monthly Discogs dumps and bounded to releases from 1935 to 2000.

Sources

Discogs: official monthly dumps, releases, credits and identifiers — CC0.

Wikidata: anchors, types and documented attributes — CC0.

MusicBrainz: only MBIDs exposed through Wikidata; no additional enrichment is published.

Meaning of fields

A year is a release year, never a session date. A Discogs country is a pressing country. Graph coordinates and communities are calculated by JazzMesh.

Images and limits

The landing page shows JazzMesh interface screenshots, without Discogs/Amazon covers or photographs from undocumented sources.

The home-page editorial artwork was generated specifically for JazzMesh with an AI tool. It is not an archival photograph and does not claim to depict any identified musician.

Ambiguous credits are excluded. The corpus describes releases, not an exhaustive history of jazz sessions.