a style of music that uses features of both jazz and classical music in an attempt to develop a new and distinctive musical idiom.
[1960-65]
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third stream noun
A style of music having features of both jazz and classical music
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third stream,
a form of musical composition that attempts to combine the harmonic qualities of classical music with the rhythmic and improvisational elements of jazz.
–third´-stream´, adjective.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.