Third Stream

Third Stream - term coined in 1957 by composer Gunther Schuller, in a lecture at Brandeis University, to describe a musical genre combining classical music and jazz. Early example (not necessarily pure/successful)
 * It is not jazz with strings.
 * It is not jazz played on 'classical' instruments.
 * It is not classical music played by jazz players.
 * It is not inserting a bit of Ravel or Schoenberg between be-bop changes—nor the reverse.
 * It is not jazz in fugal form.
 * It is not a fugue played by jazz players.
 * It is not designed to do away with jazz or classical music; it is just another option amongst many for today’s creative musicians.
 * Early ragtime
 * Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue
 * Milhaud's La creation du monde
 * Stravinsky's Ragtime, Piano-Rag music, The Ebony Concerto
 * Ravel, Martinu, Hindemith, Still, Copland, Weill, Shostakovich
 * Duke Ellington's work drew on Delius, Debussy, Ravel
 * Art Tatum's work drew on Massenet, Dvorak
 * Artie Shaw's Interlude in B-flat
 * Charles Mingus