Third stream

Movement · 1957 → · New York · Modern jazz (1940-1970)

Term coined by Gunther Schuller (Brandeis, 1957) for a marriage between jazz and classical music: John Lewis and the Modern Jazz Quartet, Gil Evans.

Where it comes from

• Cool (Birth of the Cool)

What it gave rise to or influenced

• Symphonic jazz, dance orchestras
• Tango nuevo
• Modern big bands
• Jazz in film and on screen

Artists

• Charles Mingus (1922–1979, double bass, composition)
• Oliver Nelson (1932–1975, saxophone, composition)
• Martial Solal (1927–2024, piano)
• Michel Portal (1935–2026, clarinet, saxophone, bandoneon)
• Richard Galliano (1950, accordion)
• Artie Shaw (1910–2004, clarinet)
• Vienna Art Orchestra (big band)
• James Brandon Lewis (tenor saxophone, composition)

Tracks to start with

• Air on the G String (Play Bach) — Jacques Loussier Trio (1959)
• Django — Modern Jazz Quartet (1955)
• Partita — Joe Harriott & John Mayer (1967)
• Reflections on Gnossienne No. 1 — Vienna Art Orchestra (1984)
• Going Home — James Brandon Lewis (2026)

Sources

• EN : Third stream

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