Pre-20th Century Jazz/Classical Fusion

Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1840s)
Charles Ives ("Central Park In The Dark", 1898-1907)


Early European Jazz/Classical Fusion

Claude Debussy ("Golliwog's Cakewalk", 1908)
Igor Stravinsky ("L'Histoire du Soldat", "Ragtime for Eleven Instruments", 1918)
Darius Milhaud ("La creation du monde", 1923)


The Jazz Age

George Gershwin ("Blue Monday")
Paul Whitman (introduces "Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue", 1942)
Aaron Copeland - George Antheil - Maurice Ravel - Kurt Weill - Erwin Schulhoff - Dimitri Shostakovich - Bix Beiderbecke ("In A Mist") - James P. Johnson


The Swing Era

Artie Shaw - Benny Goodman - Duke Ellington - Billy Strayhorn - Woody Herman


Post World-War II Era

Rolf Liebermann ("Concerto For Jazz Band and Orchestra", performed by the Chicago Symphony / Sauter-Finnegan Orchestra)
Leonard Bernstein ("Cool", fugue from West Side Story)


The Late 1950s

Gunther Schuller (forms Jazz and Classical Music Society, 1955 coins phrase Third Stream. 1957
Stan Kenton (forms Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra
Dave Brubeck - Howard Brubeck - Miles Davis/Gil Evans (Sketches Of Spain) - John Lewis - William Russo - J.J. Johnson - Jimmy Giuffre


The 1960s

Stan Getz/Eddie Sauter - Vince Guaraldi - Lalo Schifrin - William Fischer - Cannonball Adderley - Herbie Mann


The 1970s Onward

Roger Kellaway - Eddie Daniels - Kronos Quartet - Turtle Island String Quartet - Palle Mikkelborg - Jan Garbarek - Steven Mackey