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.

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Allmusic

Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars stating: "One of the most successful third stream efforts ...This is very interesting music".

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

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