Hard bop
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Hard bop is an extension of bebop (bop) music which incorporates influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues, especially in the saxophone and piano playing.
Its tempo is often slower than bop's, and its bass playing more varied; it is in part intended to be more accessible to audiences unfamiliar with or not fond of bop. It also is, as David H. Rosenthal contends in his book "Hard Bop," to a large degree the natural creation of a generation of black American musicians who grew up at a time when bop and rhythm and blues were the dominant forms of black American music and jazz musicians as prominent as Tadd Dameron worked in both genres.
Hard bop musicians include Cannonball Adderly, Art Blakey, Clifford Brown, Donald Byrd, Sonny Clark, John Coltrane, Lou Donaldson, Miles Davis, Kenny Drew, Benny Golson, Dexter Gordon, Joe Henderson, Andrew Hill, Freddie Hubbard, Jackie McLean, Charles Mingus, Blue Mitchell, Hank Mobley, Thelonious Monk, Lee Morgan, and Horace Silver.
Hard bop was developed in the 1950s and 1960s and enjoyed its greatest popularity in that era, but hard bop performers, and elements of the music, remain popular in jazz.
Soul jazz developed from hard bop.
Samples
- Download sample of "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" by Sonny Rollins from The Sound of Sonny
- Download sample of "Traneing In" by John Coltrane from Traneing In
Other hard bop musicians
- Eric Alexander
- Carl Allen
- Gary Bartz
- Walter Bishop, Jr.
- Tina Brooks
- Paul Chambers
- Thomas Clausen
- Bob Cranshaw
- Steve Davis
- Walter Davis, Jr.
- Kenny Dorham
- Ray Draper
- Kenny Drew
- Curtis Fuller
- Hotep Idris Galeta
- Red Garland
- Jimmy Garrison
- Johnny Griffin
- Herbie Hancock
- Bill Hardman
- Roy Haynes
- Billy Higgins
- Elmo Hope
- Bobby Hutcherson
- Harold Land
- Clifford Jarvis
- LaMont Johnson
- Philly Joe Jones
- Pete La Roca (Pete Sims)
- Herbie Lewis
- Hank Mobley
- Lewis Nash
- Art Phipps
- Larry Ridley
- Larry Ritchie
- Pete Sims
- Art Taylor
- Charles Tolliver
- Stanley Turrentine
- Tommy Turrentine
- Mal Waldron
- Cedar Walton
- Butch Warren
- Doug Watkins
- Tony Williams
- Larry Willis
External link
- The Hard Bop Homepage (http://members.tripod.com/~hardbop/)
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