Ended the weekend and welcomed the week after a walk with Skies of America the 17th album by jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman, released on Columbia Records in 1972...

..Coleman took a sabbatical to Montana in 1965. Coleman witnessed a group of Native Americans and it inspired him.

"It was so cold," he said of that time in Montana. "It must have been 2 or 3 below zero, and when I saw the American Indians praying, doing their purity ritual, they looked like their bodies were transparent. All of a sudden, I saw the American Indian and the sky as the same people. It taught me something about religion, race, wealth, poverty, commerce. I said: 'Oh, I'm going to go over to the other side. I only want to be on the side of the consciousness that comes to people naturally.'" - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4Qi9UzQt9M

#OrnetteColeman #ThirdStream #Jazz #Music #Orchestra #LondonSymphonyOrchestra #NativeAmericans #AvantGarde

After The Last Sky = بعد السماء الأخيرة by Anouar Brahem, Anja Lechner, Django Bates, Dave Holland , released on ECM in 2025.

Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:

After The Last Sky marks the return of oud virtuoso and composer Anouar Brahem to ECM, eight years after Blue Maqams. That groundbreaking album also featured pianist Django Bates and bassist Dave Holland, both of whom are retained here, along with a new addition in cellist Anja Lechner. The result is a culmination of culminations, blending Brahem’s evolving integrations of jazz, European classical music, and, of course, the modal Arabic maqams at their core. Gaza was firmly on his mind leading up to and during the recording, and the titles reflect this awareness in a contemplative way...

https://ecmreviews.com/2025/07/27/anouar-brahem-after-the-last-sky-ecm-2838/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWnmsOLbO90&list=OLAK5uy_lGzzN8gxHBG9UVgkUQfHoo6vW7zsG40ZQ&index=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB_2W8CEMgk

#AnouarBrahem #AnjaLechner #DjangoBates #DaveHolland #Oud #ECM #ECMReviews #Jazz #ThirdStream #Maqam #Music #ArabicMusic

Out There is an album by Eric Dolphy which was released by Prestige Records in September 1961. It features Dolphy in a quartet with bassists Ron Carter (here playing cello) and George Duvivier, and drummer Roy Haynes. It was Dolphy's second album as a leader, released following his time with Charles Mingus.

Dolphy's group on Out There resembles the late 1950s ensembles of Chico Hamilton, with whom Dolphy played and recorded during that time, in that it features both a cello and a bass; however, unlike Hamilton's group, Dolphy's does not contain a guitar or other chordal instrument.

Writing for PopMatters, Will Layman called the album "a dream come true", and noted how Dolphy and Carter are "free to explore harmony above the minimal barriers of George Duvivier's bass lines and Roy Haynes' snap-crackle-pop stick work.".. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAkXNfUh-iQ

#EricDolphy #RonCarter #JazzCello
#GeorgeDuvivier #RoyHaynes #Jazz #Music #ThirdStream #PostBop #PrestigeLabel

Ballet-Symphony No 5, Symphony No. 6 - The Music Of Gunter Hampel by Gunter Hampel, released in 1971 on Birth Records in 1971.

Gunter Hampel (born 31 August 1937)[1] is a German jazz vibraphonist, clarinettist, saxophonist, flautist, pianist, and composer. He became dedicated to free jazz in the 1960s, developing a record label (Birth Records) and working with Jeanne Lee, John McLaughlin, Muruga Booker, Laurie Allan, Udo Lindenberg, Pierre Courbois, Archie Shepp, Marion Brown, Steve McCall and Perry Robinson. In 1972, he formed the Galaxie Dream Band. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_zR4_qT16o&list=RDq_zR4_qT16o&start_radio=1

#GunterHampel #Jazz #Music #AvantGarde #FreeJazz #Vibraphone #ThirdStream #JazzFlute #JeanneLee

New Directions by Teddy Charles, released on Prestige as part of their Original Jazz Classics series in 1999

Review by Rick Anderson

Vibraphonist Teddy Charles was turning people's heads when he recorded these tracks in the early 1950s...these performances find him taking standards like "Ol' Man River" and "Basin Street Blues" down strange paths and creating unusually challenging "modern" music in collaboration with pianist and pedagogue Hall Overton. The last four tracks on this collection are the most interesting and challenging: titled "Mobiles," "Antiphony," "Metalizing," and "Decibels," they are compositions based on organizational concepts rather than melodic ideas and sound something like a cross between John Cage and Charles Mingus..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlcMWPrgSt8&list=RDQlcMWPrgSt8&start_radio=1

#TeddyCharles #HallOverton #Jazz #Vibraphone #Music #ThirdStream #PrestigeRecords

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