Jazz Abstractions

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Jazz Abstractions
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Studio album by
Releasedca. November 1961 [1] [2]
RecordedDecember 19–20, 1960
NYC
Genre Jazz
Length36:06
Label Atlantic
SD 1365
Producer John Lewis, Nesuhi Ertegun
John Lewis chronology
The Wonderful World of Jazz
(1960)
Jazz Abstractions
(1961)
Original Sin
(1961)

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. [3] [4]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars stating: "One of the most successful third stream efforts ...This is very interesting music". [5]

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. "Jazz Abstractions" (PDF). The Cash Box. The Cash Box, New York. November 18, 1961. Retrieved June 18, 2019.
  2. "Albums of the Week". Billboard Music Week. The Billboard Publishing Co. November 6, 1961. Retrieved June 18, 2019.
  3. Atlantic Records Catalog: 1300 series accessed September 11, 2015
  4. Gunther Schuller discography Archived 2015-09-27 at the Wayback Machine accessed September 11, 2015
  5. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. John Lewis Presents Jazz Abstractions – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved September 11, 2015.