Third Stream Music

by The Modern Jazz Quartet & Guests

Third Stream Music cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: September 1960
  • Label: Atlantic
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 35:36
  • Community rating: 3.93/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Guests

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The project explicitly codified the fusion of classical music and modern jazz by featuring the Beaux Arts String Quartet alongside the Jimmy Giuffre Three. Gunther Schuller contributed conducting and arranging duties, attempting to formally bridge the gap between composed chamber music and spontaneous improvisation.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, improvisation, acoustic, rhythmic

Tracklist

  1. Da Capo (3:38)
  2. Fin茅 (6:06)
  3. Exposure (9:43)
  4. Sketch (5:30)
  5. Conversation (10:39)

Credits

  • The Modern Jazz Quartet - primary artist
  • Guests - primary artist
  • Earle Brown - engineer [recording]
  • Frank Abbey - engineer [recording]
  • Tom Dowd - engineer [recording]
  • Beaux Arts String Quartet - guest
  • The Jimmy Giuffre Trio - guest
  • Abidin Dino - illustration [cover drawing]
  • Adrian Barber - lacquer cut by
  • Joe Tekula - performer [the beaux arts string quartet], cello
  • Carl Eberl - performer [the beaux arts string quartet], viola
  • Gerald Tarack - performer [the beaux arts string quartet], violin [1st]
  • Alan Martin - performer [the beaux arts string quartet], violin [2nd]
  • Ralph Pe帽a - performer [the jimmy giuffre three], bass
  • Jimmy Giuffre - performer [the jimmy giuffre three], clarinet, tenor saxophone, written-by
  • Jim Hall - performer [the jimmy giuffre three], guitar
  • Percy Heath - performer [the modern jazz quartet], bass
  • Connie Kay - performer [the modern jazz quartet], drums
  • John Lewis - performer [the modern jazz quartet], piano, written-by, conductor
  • Milt Jackson - performer [the modern jazz quartet], vibraphone [vibraharp]
  • John S. Wilson - sleeve notes
  • Max Harrison - sleeve notes
  • Nesuhi Ertegun - supervised by
  • Manuel Zegler - bassoon
  • William McColl - clarinet
  • Gunther Schuller - conductor, written-by
  • Robert DiDomenica - flute
  • Paul Ingraham - french horn
  • Betty Glamann - harp

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