In the late 1970s, I attended some classes at the New England Conservatory of Music. Some of those classes were taught by a man by the name of Ran Blake who is a pianist, composer and was the chairperson of a department at NEC called Third Stream Music which was a term coined by the composer Gunther Schuller. Basically the concept was to take two different styles of music,  blend them and create something new and original. The department of Third Stream Music was later renamed Contemporary Musical Arts. But it is basically the same which is to think out of the box and experiment with all the sounds that are out there. I fondly look back at those day and appreciate the exposure I got of the many talents musicians that were there at that time.  And once and a while I'll sit down at the piano and try to play something in that tradition.

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