Jazz Manouche AI Slop On Spotify

Carlos Foster

I was listening to a mix of Django’s recordings this week when some unfamiliar tunes came up on the playlist. I checked the name of the song, didn’t recognize it, then saw the artist was listed as the Quintette du Hot Club de France, Dorado Schmidt, AND Ensemble de Jazz Manouche. The latter, as you probably guessed, is an AI account masquerading as a real gypsy jazz band. They have like 10 albums released in the span of three months.

I dug deeper under the similar artists tab and found Jazz Manouche Instrumental Ensemble. Another AI account, with several albums, and claiming to have collaborated with Pearl Django on the tracks.

The presence of this music is sickening enough, but I am so grossed out that the account owners are falsely claiming contributions from real working artists.

Put your slop out, if you must, but don’t ride on the coat tails of actual artists who dedicated their lives to mastering and pushing this genre of music forward. It’s a common AI tactic that gets the account more streams, and legitimizes the AI tracks in the view of Spotify’s algorithms.

It’s tough to navigate the flow of this slop that is being force fed to us daily, but be aware. And champion the real contributors to this music.