Abstract
By the mid-1960s, the free jazz movement had expanded beyond New York, and Europe became a destination for a new stream of American musicians. The French jazz press, by systematically documenting concerts and festivals, provides a valuable resource for tracing these movements and examining the dynamics of jazz’s globalization. This work aims to map the performance venues and free jazz artist’s routes across western Europe based on an analysis of \textit{Jazz Hot} from 1966 through 1976. The prototype pipeline thus resorts to a fine tuned OCR model to extract performance references, which are then georeferenced and mapped on a dedicated platform with aim to shed light on the geographical distribution of free jazz.