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Jeff Lederer: There's a Yearnin'

by Jerome Wilson
July 19, 2026

Jazz and classical music have been intersecting for decades. One of the most prominent examples of this was the Third Stream movement of the sixties, where composers and musicians like Gunther Schuller and John Lewis encouraged the efforts of jazz musicians who wanted to experiment in the world of classical music. The music created through the movement is little heard today, but Jeff Lederer has here assembled a selection of works from that period by Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy and Oliver ...