Hard bop
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Hard bop is a subgenre of jazz that is an extension of bebop. Journalists and record companies began using the term in the mid-1950s to describe a new current within jazz that incorporated influences
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, 1960. Pictured are Lee Morgan (left), Jymie Merritt (center), and Art Blakey (right) (saxophonist Wayne Shorter stands mostly hidden behind Merritt).
Horace Silver Quintet in Amsterdam, 1959
Horace Silver
Wynton Marsalis, an important figure in the revival of bop
A Night at Birdland, Vols. 1–3 are three separate but related 10″ LPs by the Art Blakey Quintet recorded live at the Birdland jazz club on February 21, 1954, and released on Blue Note later that year,
Volume 1