The Rise and Fall of the Third Stream
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Stream is an album by Austrian
jazz
keyboardist
and composer
Joe Zawinul
, released in 1968. The title refers to the Third stream
genre of music, melding classical and jazz.
Austrians
Austrians are a nation and ethnic group, consisting of the population of the Republic of Austria and its historical predecessor states who share a common Austrian culture and Austrian descent....
jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
keyboardist
Keyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
and composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
Joe Zawinul
Joe Zawinul
Josef Erich Zawinul was an Austrian-American jazz keyboardist and composer.First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with trumpeter Miles Davis, and to become one of the creators of jazz fusion, an innovative musical genre that combined jazz with...
, released in 1968. The title refers to the Third stream
Third stream
Third Stream is a term coined in 1957 by composer Gunther Schuller, within a lecture at Brandeis University, to describe a musical genre which is a synthesis of classical music and jazz...
genre of music, melding classical and jazz.
Track listing
- "Baptismal" (William Fischer) – 7:37
- "The Soul of a Village - Part I" (William Fischer) – 2:13
- "The Soul of a Village - Part II" (William Fischer) – 4:12
- "The Fifth Canto" (William Fischer) – 6:55
- "From Vienna, With Love" (Friedrich Gulda) – 4:27
- "Lord, Lord, Lord" (William Fischer) – 3:55
- "A Concerto, Retitled" (William Fischer) – 5:30
Personnel
- Joe ZawinulJoe ZawinulJosef Erich Zawinul was an Austrian-American jazz keyboardist and composer.First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with trumpeter Miles Davis, and to become one of the creators of jazz fusion, an innovative musical genre that combined jazz with...
- Piano and electric piano - William Fischer - Tenor Saxophone and arrangements
- Jimmy Owens - Trumpet
- Alfred Brown - Viola
- Selwart Clarke - Viola
- Theodore Israel - Viola
- Kermit Moore - Cello
- Richard Davis - Bass
- Roy McCurdyRoy McCurdyRoy McCurdy, born November 28, 1936 in Rochester, New York, is a jazz drummer.Before joining Cannonball Adderley's Quintet in 1965 and staying with the band until Adderley's death in 1975, he had played with Chuck and Gap Mangione in the Jazz Brothers , as well as with Bobby Timmons, Betty Carter...
- Drums - Freddie WaitsFreddie WaitsFreddie Douglas Waits was a hard bop and post-bop drummer.He was a member of Max Roach's M'Boom percussion orchestra....
- Drums - Warren SmithWarren Smith (jazz musician)Warren Smith is an American jazz percussionist.Smith was born in Chicago, Illinois, into a musical family; his father played saxophone and clarinet with Noble Sissle and Jimmy Noone, and his mother was a harpist and pianist. He studied clarinet under his father from age four...
- Percussion