Today we celebrate the centennial of Gunther Schuller (1925–2015)—composer, conductor, horn player, author, educator, and pioneer of jazz-classical fusion. A multifaceted artist, Schuller played alongside legends like Miles Davis and wrote influential books on history of jazz. In the late 1950s and ’60s, he coined the term “Third Stream” for his groundbreaking compositional style of blending jazz and contemporary classical music. Leonard Bernstein admired Schuller’s innovation: he invited him to