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Hard bop is a subgenre of jazz that is an extension of bebop (or "bop") music. Journalists and record companies began using the term in the mid-1950s[1] to describe a new current within jazz that incorporated influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues, especially in saxophone and piano playing. David H. Rosenthal contends in his book Hard Bop that the genre is, to a large degree, the natural creation of a generation of African-American musicians who grew up at a time when bop and rhythm and blues were the dominant forms of black American music.[2]: 24 Prominent hard bop musicians included Horace Silver, Clifford Brown, Charles Mingus, Art Blakey, Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Hank Mobley, Thelonious Monk and Lee Morgan. Hard bop is sometimes referred to as "funky hard bop".[1][3] The "funky" label refers to the rollicking, rhythmic feeling associated with the style.[3] The descriptor is also used to describe soul jazz, which is commonly associated wit

Hard bop - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Subgenre of jazz music This article is about the jazz style. For the album by Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, see Hard Bop (album) . Hard bop 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). Stylistic origins Jazz blues bebop rhythm and blues gospel music Cultural origins 1950s in New York City and Detroit Derivative forms Soul jazz post-bop straight-ahead jazz neo-bop jazz Other t

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