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
Art Blakey
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Arthur Blakey was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he converted to Islam for a short time in the late 1940s.
Hard bop
…rhythm and blues were the dominant forms of black American music. Prominent hard bop musicians included Horace Silver, Clifford Brown, Charles Mingus, Art Blakey, Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Hank Mobley, Sonny Clark, Thelonious Monk, Lee Morgan, Wes Montgomery, and Pat Martino. Hard bop is…
Blakey, c. 1964
Blakey on a tour billed as part of the "Giants of Jazz" in Hamburg, Germany, in 1973
Blakey performing at the Umeå jazz festival in Sweden in 1979
Blakey in 1982