Jazz Abstractions

Jazz Abstractions
Studio album by John Lewis, Gunther Schuller and Jim Hall
Released 1961
Recorded December 19 & 20, 1960
NYC
Genre Jazz
Length 36:06
Label Atlantic
SD 1365
Producer John Lewis, Nesuhi Ertegun
John Lewis chronology
The Wonderful World of Jazz
(1960)The Wonderful World of Jazz1960		 Jazz Abstractions
(1961)		 Original Sin
(1961)Original Sin1961

Jazz Abstractions (subtitled John Lewis Presents Contemporary Music: Compositions by Gunther Schuller and Jim Hall) is a third stream album combining elements of jazz and classical music recorded in late 1960 for the Atlantic label.[1][2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]

Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars stating "One of the most successful third stream efforts ...This is very interesting music".[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Gunther Schuller except as indicated

  1. "Abstraction" - 4:06
  2. "Piece for Guitar & Strings" (Jim Hall) - 6:22
  3. "Variants on a Theme of John Lewis (Django)" - 10:15
    1. "Variant I" - 5:27
    2. "Variant II" - 1:38
    3. "Variant III" - 3:10
  4. "Variants on a Theme of Thelonious Monk (Criss-Cross)" - 15:23
    1. "Variant I" - 6:22
    2. "Variant II" - 1:49
    3. "Variant III" - 4:12
    4. "Variant IV" - 3:00

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Atlantic Records Catalog: 1300 series accessed September 11, 2015
  2. ↑ Gunther Schuller discography accessed September 11, 2015
  3. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. John Lewis Presents Jazz Abstractions – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
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