Andi Chorley<p>Original Sin (subtitled Music for Ballet Composed by John Lewis) is an album in the third stream genre composed by John Lewis recorded for the Atlantic label in 1961.</p><p>The contemporaneous DownBeat reviewer criticised the sound balance on the opening track – "it very rapidly becomes a concerto for cymbal and small band" – and condemned the inconsistency of the music: "The first variation of Part 2 is unabridged musical comedy pit band. But the tantalizing thing is that Variation 2 is a clever, self-sustaining, unified, and original little composition. Variation 3 sounds like a fashion show, but Variation 4 is a lovely, light, unpretentious piece, and Variation 5 is simple, stark, and well composed[,] reminiscent of Aaron Copland at his best."</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/johnlewis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>johnlewis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/mjq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mjq</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/jazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jazz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/thirdstream" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thirdstream</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/1961inmusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>1961inmusic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ballet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ballet</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb2wW7qPybY&list=PLxfjLVaTZsg0Q_UUhYTeBhBz6Sk3OwTN6&index=1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=cb2wW7qPyb</span><span class="invisible">Y&list=PLxfjLVaTZsg0Q_UUhYTeBhBz6Sk3OwTN6&index=1</span></a></p>