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Hard bop

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 from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues, especially in saxophone and piano playing.

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Cultural origins
1950s in New York City and Detroit
Derivative forms
Soul jazz · post-bop · straight-ahead jazz · neo-bop jazz
Stylistic origins
Jazz · blues · bebop · rhythm and blues · gospel music

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related to Mainstream · 43
Hard bop → Ake, Al Campbell, AllMusic, Although, Art Blakey, Art Farmer, Benny Golson, Bill Hardman, Blowin' Session, Blue Note Records, Coltrane's, David Ake, Described, During, Golson, Golson's Jazztet, Griffin's, Hank Mobley, In, It
related to Decline and revival · 25
Hard bop → Art Blakey, Beatles, Black Byrd, Blue Note, Blue Note Records, Blue Note's, Davis, Donald Byrd's, Following, For, Freddie Hubbard, His, In, Joe Henderson, Johnny Griffin, Miles Davis, One Night, Ron Carter, Scott Yanow, The
related to Characteristics · 22
Hard bop → According, African-American, Amiri Baraka, As Paul Tanner, California, David Megill, Gridley, Hard, He, However, James Lincoln Collier, Jazz, Mark, Maurice Gerow, New York City, Scott Yanow, Shelly Manne, Some, Sonny Rollins, The
related to Origins · 21
Hard bop → According, Alternatively, Anthony Macias, Art Blakey, Barry Harris, Billy Mitchell, Blakey, Blakey's, Blue Bird Inn, Detroit, Hard, Jazz, Jazz Messengers, John Mehegan, Kenny Burrell, Michael Cuscuna, Miles Davis, Nat Hentoff, New York, New York Herald Tribune
Stylistic origins · 5
Hard bop → bebop, blues, gospel music, Jazz, rhythm and blues
related to Legacy · 5
Hard bop → Alternatively, Although, In, Rosenthal, Yanow
Derivative forms · 4
Hard bop → neo-bop jazz, post-bop, Soul jazz, straight-ahead jazz
see also · 2
Hard bop → Jazz, List
Cultural origins · 1
Hard bop → 1950s in New York City and Detroit
is a · 1
Hard bop → subgenre of jazz that is an extension of bebop

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Hard bopCultural origins1950s in New York City and Detroit1.00infobox
Hard bopDerivative formsSoul jazz1.00infobox
Hard bopDerivative formspost-bop1.00infobox
Hard bopDerivative formsstraight-ahead jazz1.00infobox
Hard bopDerivative formsneo-bop jazz1.00infobox
Hard bopStylistic originsJazz1.00infobox
Hard bopStylistic originsblues1.00infobox
Hard bopStylistic originsbebop1.00infobox
Hard bopStylistic originsrhythm and blues1.00infobox
Hard bopStylistic originsgospel music1.00infobox
Hard bopis asubgenre of jazz that is an extension of bebop0.90text
the plagal cadence seemed to suddenly appear in jazz during the erainstance ofand traditional gospel elements0.80text

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