Very interesting article that discusses the recent non-bootlegged release of a live Coltrane performance as well as the recent release Blue, a note-for-note, accent-for-accent recreation of the infamous 1959 Miles Davis album Kind of Blue.
I don't know that I believe verbatim jazz to be jazz. Jazz is about improvisation. If you're told what to play and when to play it then, I believe, you fall into the realm of classical music, no matter how syncopated the music may be.
Just as interesting a read, and interview with the leader of Mostly Others Do the Killing about the album.