Jazz

Why Hard Bop?

This article was first published on All About Jazz on January 1998. When trying to investigate jazz, all the classifications and categories can be a bit confusing. What do they mean when they say ...
Jazz

The John Brown Quintet Shakes up Hard Bop for a New Generation with "Terms of Art: A Tribute to Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers"

New York, NY -- True to the groove rhythms of hard bop made famous by drummer and bandleader Art Blakey, the John Brown Quintet is releasing its debut CD, Terms of Art: A Tribute to Art Blakey and the ...
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Hard bop : jazz and Black music, 1955-1965 / David H. Rosenthal

Bebop -- Hard bop begins -- A new mainstream -- The scene -- The lyricists -- Tenors and organs -- The power of badness -- Hard bop heterodoxy : Monk, Mingus, Miles, and Trane -- Changes -- The last ...

‘Buttercorn Lady’ Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers are taking centre-stage, bringing their hard bop sound to the iconic L.A. club The ...
Philadelphia Tribune

Curtis Fuller, acclaimed jazz trombonist of hard-bop era, dies at 88

Curtis Fuller, an acclaimed jazz trombonist who was a key contributor to the bluesy, hard-bop style of the 1950s and 1960s and who was named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts, died ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Revered ‘hard bop’ jazz trumpeter dies

Freddie Hubbard, an influential jazz trumpeter who played with such legends as John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Ornette Coleman, died Monday in Sherman Oaks. He was 70. By Jonathan Cohen, The Associated ...
Metro Times

Detroit composer, jazz trombonist, and hard-bop pioneer Curtis Fuller has died at the age of 88

Celebrated jazz trombonist, composer, and integral player in the development of the hard-bop movement of the 1950s and 60s, Curtis DuBois Fuller, died in Detroit on May 8 at the age of 88. Born in ...
Jambands

Lou Donaldson, Hard Bop and Soul Jazz Innovator, Passes Away at 98

“Lou Donaldson DSC0004a” by Marek Lazarski is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. On Saturday, Nov. 9, the jazz world lost a legend with the passing of Lou Donaldson. Donaldson was a bebop mainstay, a ...
KMUW

Curtis Fuller, Johnny Hammond Smith, Soul Jazz & Eddie Vinson FEATURED ALBUMS OF THE WEEK: Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Seek & Listen, and Vibrations in the Village

Tonight on the Night Train, we mark birthdays of Latin Jazz giant Eddie Palmieri, pianist and composer Barry Harris, and hard ...
BroadwayWorld

Interview: A BTS Look at Jazz At Lincoln Center's COOL SCHOOL & HARD BOP with Sherman Irby

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. We spoke with Irby about the upcoming show and what to expect from the ...
Columbia Daily Tribune

Notes and tones: 'Hard Bop Hanukkah' a welcome change

I’m not really a big fan of the sub-genre known as holiday jazz. As great as jazz musicians can be, it’s certainly a challenge to “spice up” the likes of “Little Drummer Boy” and make it your own.