Skating in Central Park

Modern Jazz Quartet · 1959 · Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), musique de John Lewis

Context

John Lewis composed the music for Odds Against Tomorrow, recorded on October 9 and 10, 1959, in New York by the Modern Jazz Quartet and a 22-piece orchestra. Released by United Artists, the record opens with "Skating in Central Park."

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Jazz in film and on screen, Third stream. Among the origins and influences of Jazz in film and on screen: Cool (Birth of the Cool), Third stream, Modern big bands.

By the same artist

• One Never Knows (1958)
• Fontessa (1956)
• Django (1955)
• Concorde (1955)

Sources

• EN: Music from Odds Against Tomorrow

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