Hard bop

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.

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Bebop - Rhythm and blues - Gospel music - Blues - Saxophone - Piano

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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.

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Tempo - David H. Rosenthal - American - Rhythm and blues - Tadd Dameron

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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, Sonny Rollins, and Horace Silver.

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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 - Sonny Rollins - Horace Silver

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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.

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1950s - 1960s

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Soul jazz developed from hard bop.

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