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Genre: Hard Bop

Hard bop was an extension of bebop (bop) music which incorporated influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues, especially in the saxophone and piano playing.

 

Hard Bop's tempi were often slower than bop's, and its bass playing more varied; it was in part intended to be more interesting to audiences unfamiliar with or not fond of bop. It also was probably, 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 included 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, 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.


Significant Hard Bop Musicians

Other significant Hard Bop musicians include:-

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

    • Related Topics - Jazz History:-
    Jazz Roots | Early 20th Century Jazz | Jazz in 1920s to 1950s | Development of Bebop | Latin Jazz | Jazz Fusion | Recent Developments in Jazz
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