Ended Monday and welcomed Tuesday after a swim with The Modern Jazz Society Presents a Concert of Contemporary Music an album of music composed by John Lewis, arranged and conducted by Gunther Schuller, which was first released on the Norgran label.

The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album a "Crown" of recommended jazz recordings. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YPK5hDoVYM&list=OLAK5uy_ll2BvkxaueaOX92AjmXmUfedjePnUy86Q&index=1

#JohnLewis #GuntherSchuller #Jazz #ThirdStream #Music #JJJohnson #StanGetz #PercyHeath #ConnieKay #ModernJazzQuartet

Ended Monday and welcomed Tuesday after a swim with European Windows by John Lewis from 1958 released on RCA Victor.

Review by Scott Yanow

Although John Lewis plays piano throughout this orchestral album, he only solos on one piece ("Two Degrees East-Three Degrees West"). There are spots for baritonist Ronnie Ross and flutist Gerry Weinkopf but this is very much a third-stream effort. The Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra does not attempt to swing and the charts often lean more toward Western classical music (and the type of music one might expect from a soundtrack) than jazz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3T8xV7Gh84

#JohnLewis #ModernJazzQuartet #Jazz #ThirdStream #Music

Ended Thursday and welcomed Friday with Leonard Bernstein Conducts Music of Our Time featuring music composed by György Ligeti, Morton Feldman and Larry Austin performed by the New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, Don Ellis, Barre Phillips and Joe Cocuzzo, released on Columbia Masterworks in 1965.

MadHerb wrote on Rate Your Music:

"..This release includes a piece by Larry Austin (who I'd never heard of) with Don Ellis on trumpet and the supremely talented Barre Phillips on bass. Released in 1965 so this may be Phillips' first appearance on vinyl and he acquits himself well. The cover has one of those wiggly line, headache inducing, optical illusion things. Pretty funky release."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ7H1aWKGyk&list=PLY0lBEt6QlkaFbHAPCrc5H6nNe5y0aWUr&index=1

#LeonardBernstein #Ligeti #MortonFeldman #LarryAustin #NewYorkPhilharmic #DonEllis #BarrePhillips #JoeCocuzzo #ThirdStream #Jazz #ModernClassical #Music #ColumbiaMasterworks #BridgetRiley

Ended Thursday and welcomed Friday with Ebony Concerto / Symphony In Three Movements by Stravinsky, Woody Herman And His Orchestra, Sir Eugene Goossens, The London Symphony Orchestra, released on Everest in 1958.

Ebony Concerto is a musical composition by Igor Stravinsky, commissioned by jazz musician Woody Herman and completed on December 1, 1945. It is one in a series of compositions requested by Herman for solo clarinetist and jazz ensemble and the score is dedicated to Herman. The composition was first performed on March 25, 1946, in Carnegie Hall in New York City, by Woody Herman's Band, conducted by Walter Hendl. - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebony_Concerto_(Stravinsky)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD5p9ebsgOw&list=RDaD5p9ebsgOw&start_radio=1

#Stravinsky #WoodyHerman #ThirdStream #Jazz #ClassicalMusic #Music #EugeneGoossens #LondonSymphonyOrchestra

How Time Passes is the debut album by trumpeter Don Ellis recorded in 1960 and released on the Candid label

Scott Yanow of Allmusic states, "Trumpeter Don Ellis' initial recording as a leader (and first of four small group dates from the 1960-1962 period) found him stretching the boundaries of bop-based jazz and experimenting a bit with time and tempo... Although these musical experiments failed to be influential (Ellis himself went in a different direction a few years later), the unpredictable music is still quite interesting to hear" - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHiwLDirsrE&list=OLAK5uy_l-IQ3ApAVXdgALvBvJjyOUgkw13E0m6ug

#DonEllis #JakiByard #RonCarter #Jazz #ThirdStream #Music

Four Jazz Compositions -Based On Japanese Classical Themes by Toshiyuki Miyama & The New Herd, released in 1970 on Toshiba Records.

Snobb wrote on Jazz Music Archives:

"The album's opener, the ten-minute long "Mumyoju", is composed by Japanese leading avant-garde pianist and composer of the time, Masahiko Satoh, (he plays on it as well, but percussion, not piano). It begins with silence pierced with ascetic needles of percussion, minimal brass splashes and koto. Still silence (or "free air", as it is often called in Japanese avant-garde music) is the largest and most important composition component. The music here is near static, in moments meditative, but more often - quite dramatic and recalls early Western contemporary avant-garde compositions, just with an Eastern touch..."

https://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/review/yotsu-no-jazz-composition-aka-four-jazz-compositions/247652

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvnBGv7oEpI&list=RDBvnBGv7oEpI&start_radio=1

#ToshiyukiMiyama #TheNewHerd #MasahikoSatoh #JapaneseJazz #Jazz #FreeJazz #ThirdStream #BigBand #Music #koto

Kenton / Wagner is an album by the Stan Kenton Orchestra performing jazz arrangements of Richard Wagner's compositions recorded in 1964 and released by Capitol Records.

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow noted "Somehow Kenton turns Wagner's music into jazz, capturing the intense emotion, pomposity and drama with daring ideas. Not for all tastes, this LP was one of Stan Kenton's last innovative recordings" - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY2jOONTElU&list=RDjY2jOONTElU&start_radio=1

#StanKenton #Wagner #BigBand #Swing #ThirdStream #Jazz #Music

Dusk Fire by Don Rendell Ian Carr 5tet, released on Columbia in 1966.

Kenneth Bridgham wrote on Allmusic:

A superb blending of both jazz and classic elements into a third stream. Both the concept and the trumpet sound are very obviously indebted to Miles Davis, but that does not change the fact that this is beautiful music to behold, whether one is looking to intensely focus on the minimalism of every note or just medidate to the overall experience.

https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2019/06/12/don-rendell-ian-carr-quintet-dusk-fire/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw9a232j7tU&list=PLAeiyKcSz5mI53g6TQ2oQ8BOfXzeh1rkm&index=1

#IanCarr #DonRendell #MichaelGarrick #BritJazz #Jazz #Music #ThirdStream

Children Of Time by Michael Garrick Jazz Britannia Orchestra With Norma Winstone, released on Jazz Academy Records in 2006.

On Children of Time, Michael Garrick stretches his sacred-jazz imagination into cosmic scale, writing for the Jazz Britannia Orchestra and reuniting with vocalist Norma Winstone to explore creation myths, Eucharistic ritual, and his own visionary texts. The result is a 2006 suite that feels like a liturgy drifting through deep space, turning theology into glowing, unsettled sound. - Soundohm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvYmWZPJLrA&list=RDBvYmWZPJLrA&start_radio=1

#MichaelGarrick #NormaWinstone #Jazz #BritJazz #BigBand #ThirdStream #Music #JazzOrchestra

Ended Tuesday and welcomed Wednesday with Live at the Lighthouse is a live album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet recorded by Wally Heider at the Lighthouse Café in 1967 and released on the Atlantic label.

The Allmusic review stated "This fairly obscure LP by the Modern Jazz Quartet, features fresh material and improvisations that are both swinging and creative" - Wikipedia

#ModernJazzQuartet #MiltJackson #JohnLewis #Jazz #ThirdStream #Music #PercyHeath #ConnieKay