Via, here's a fabulous animation visualizing (part of) the title track to John Coltrane's classic 1959 album Giant Steps, by Israeli artist Michal Levy*. Take a look:
Sadly, she seems to have done only two such animations -- the other, "One", animates music by contemporary jazz musician Jason Lindner (about whom I otherwise know nothing, although I liked what she used in her video). You can see that video at the artist's web site.
Some canny jazz educator should hire her to make more of these. The Coltrane one does such a good job of helping you hear what's going on in the music, while also being a beautiful work in its own right.
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* Note the youtube page from which I took the embedded video misspells her name; as shown in the video credits, it's Michal, not Michael.
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