John Composer Adams George Gershwin Leonard Bernstein - New World Jazz (8 tracks) +Album Reviews
(5 out of 5 stars) "Michael Tilson Thomas is one of the great conductors of this century, having proven himself over and over again with the London and San Francisco Symphonys, and now the New World Symphony, a Florida-based training orchestra. In this recording he also shows that he's very adept to conducting jazz, as was his mentor Leonard Bernstein. What comes on this CD is a fun look back on jazz-influenced works of this past century. It starts with a treat by John Adams called "Lollapalooza", which sounds like, if you've heard as much Adams as I have recently, well, John Adams....