Rick McLaughlin @rickmclaughlin.com · Nov 22

Happy birthday, Gunther Schuller! One of the highlights of my time as a New England Conservatory student was playing the premiere of “Encounters”, which I believe was his final commission. #music #musicsky #jazzmusic #jazzsky #thirdstream

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Venki Murthy · Nov 22

Wow, this post made me go listen to Jazz Abstractions again - used to listen to it a lot when I discovered it in the 1990s when I started getting into jazz seriously!

Bird Lives · Nov 22

So that's you in the back there on the bass?

Jeremy Sarna · Nov 22

I got to work with him on a Borromeo Quartet recording back in 2009, just an extraordinary person.