This is a movement combining the improvisational and blues aspects of jazz music with the forms and orchestration of modern classical music. While musicians like George Gershwin, Paul Whiteman and Igor Stravinsky used elements of jazz in classical compositions, the term third stream was coined in the 1950s by critic/composer Gunther Schuller, and inspired many experiments by jazz musicians such as Gil Evans, Stan Getz and John Lewis.

Notable Artists: Gunther Schuller, John Lewis, George Russell