Etymology

third stream

Today it means: A form of jazz created in the 1950s, performed in ensembles in a style influenced by Western classical music, such as by using musical notation and eschewing improvisation. Full definition →

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The story

Coined by composer Gunther Schuller in 1957.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.