Third stream

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Genre

Third stream is the name that the composer and horn player Gunther Schuller gave in 1957 to music that brings jazz and classical music together: a third current alongside the two main streams. It is not about jazz with strings added, but about pieces in which improvisation and compositional techniques from classical music, such as the fugue, genuinely work together. On the 1956 record Music for Brass, a brass ensemble played work by Schuller, John Lewis, J.J. Johnson and Jimmy Giuffre, with Miles Davis as soloist. For the jazz festival of Brandeis University in 1957, Charles Mingus and George Russell, among others, wrote new pieces. John Lewis's Modern Jazz Quartet brought fugues and Baroque forms into a jazz quartet. Schuller continued to defend the movement, among other things as president of the New England Conservatory in Boston.

Listening

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  Transformation · Gunther Schuller, 1957
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  Django · Modern Jazz Quartet, 1954
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  Concierto de Aranjuez · Miles Davis, 1959

In School of Rock

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• Jazz Map^NL Map
• After Hours: Session 2^NL Reader

See also

• Gil Evans
• Milt Jackson
• Eric Dolphy
• Cool Jazz and modal jazz
• Big band