Herbert Mayes
April, 1961
Third Stream Music, today reverberating on records and in concert halls, is "neither jazz nor classical, but draws upon the techniques of both." So says composer--French hornist Gunther Schuller, principal practitioner and coiner of the term, who, along with John Lewis, Bill Russo, George Russell and others, is piloting the way down a stream that's part classical discipline and part jazz tradition. Schuller, the thirty-five-year-old Manhattan-based helmsman, writes jazz and classical c...
