Jazz Abstractions

{{Infobox album

| name = Jazz Abstractions

| type = Studio

| artist = John Lewis, Gunther Schuller and Jim Hall

| cover = Jazz Abstractions.jpg

| alt =

| released = ca. November 1961{{cite news |title=Jazz Abstractions |url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-Cash-Box-IDX/60s/1961/CB-1961-11-18-OCR-Page-0023.pdf |accessdate=18 June 2019 |work=The Cash Box |publisher=The Cash Box, New York |date=18 November 1961}}{{cite news |title=Albums of the Week |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xyAEAAAAMBAJ&dq=atlantic+1365&pg=PA28 |accessdate=18 June 2019 |work=Billboard Music Week |publisher=The Billboard Publishing Co. |date=6 November 1961}}

| recorded = December 19–20, 1960
NYC

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Jazz

| length = 36:06

| label = Atlantic
SD 1365

| producer = John Lewis, Nesuhi Ertegun

| chronology = John Lewis

| prev_title = The Wonderful World of Jazz

| prev_year = 1960

| next_title = Original Sin

| next_year = 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.[http://www.jazzdisco.org/atlantic-records/catalog-1300-series/#1365 Atlantic Records Catalog: 1300 series] accessed September 11, 2015[http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Schuller/gas-disc.htm Gunther Schuller discography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150927184832/http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Schuller/gas-disc.htm |date=2015-09-27 }} accessed September 11, 2015

Reception

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}

}}

Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars stating: "One of the most successful third stream efforts ...This is very interesting music".{{AllMusic|first=Scott |last=Yanow |class=album |id=mw0001881226 |title=John Lewis Presents Jazz Abstractions – Review |accessdate=September 11, 2015}}

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
  4. "Variant I" - 5:27
  5. "Variant II" - 1:38
  6. "Variant III" - 3:10
  7. "Variants on a Theme of Thelonious Monk (Criss-Cross)" - 15:23
  8. "Variant I" - 6:22
  9. "Variant II" - 1:49
  10. "Variant III" - 4:12
  11. "Variant IV" - 3:00

Personnel

References