Genre

Hard Bop

Hard Bop on LoudQuietLoud: about 70 artists, including Wayne Shorter, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers and Freddie Hubbard. It runs alongside avant-garde jazz, modal jazz and bebop.

Cover of Rubberband by Miles Davis

Miles Davis

jazz · trumpet · bebop

John Coltrane

jazz · free jazz · saxophone

Herbie Hancock

jazz · funk · fusion

Thelonious Monk

jazz · bebop · piano

Charles Mingus

jazz · bebop · avant-garde

Wes Montgomery

jazz · jazz guitar · guitar

Sonny Rollins

jazz · saxophone · bebop

Cannonball Adderley

jazz · saxophone · bebop

McCoy Tyner

jazz · piano · jazz piano

Wayne Shorter

jazz · hard bop · saxophone

Miles Davis Quintet

jazz · bebop · trumpet

Dexter Gordon

jazz · bebop · saxophone

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

jazz · bebop · hard bop

Yusef Lateef

jazz · saxophone · flute

Donald Byrd

jazz · funk · trumpet

Freddie Hubbard

jazz · trumpet · hard bop

Jimmy Smith

jazz · organ · funk

Ahmad Jamal

jazz · piano · jazz piano

Bud Powell

jazz · bebop · piano

Clifford Brown

jazz · trumpet · bebop

Art Blakey

jazz · hard bop · bebop

Ornette Coleman

jazz · free jazz · avant-garde

Roy Hargrove

jazz · trumpet · contemporary jazz

Joe Pass

jazz · jazz guitar · guitar

Art Pepper

jazz · saxophone · bebop

Album art: Stanley Turrentine, Blue Hour (1961)

Stanley Turrentine

jazz · saxophone · jazz saxophone

Eric Dolphy

jazz · free jazz · avant-garde

Zoot Sims

jazz · saxophone · bebop

Sonny Stitt

jazz · bebop · saxophone

Mose Allison

jazz · blues · piano

Archie Shepp

jazz · free jazz · saxophone

Milt Jackson

jazz · vibraphone · bebop

Wynton Kelly

jazz · piano · jazz piano

Andrew Hill

jazz · free jazz · avant-garde jazz

Phil Woods

jazz · saxophone · bebop

Eddie Harris

jazz · funk · saxophone

Ron Carter

jazz · bass · hard bop

Barney Kessel

jazz · jazz guitar · guitar

Mal Waldron

jazz · piano · hard bop

J.J. Johnson

jazz · trombone · bebop

Gary Bartz

jazz · funk · soul

Nat Adderley

jazz · trumpet · hard bop

Charlie Rouse

jazz · hard bop · saxophone

Bud Shank

jazz · saxophone · cool jazz

Curtis Fuller

jazz · trombone · hard bop

Paul Chambers

jazz · bass · hard bop

Ray Brown

jazz · bass · bebop

The Horace Silver Quintet

jazz · bebop · hard bop

Barney Wilen

jazz · saxophone · french

Bobby Jaspar

jazz · flute · saxophone

Stan Getz Quintet

jazz · saxophone · cool jazz

Howard McGhee

jazz · trumpet · bebop

Cannonball Adderley Sextet

jazz · saxophone · bebop

Henry Franklin

jazz · bebop · hard bop

Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen

jazz · bass · double bass

Conte Candoli

bebop · cool jazz · jazz

George Wallington

jazz · piano · jazz piano

Gigi Gryce

jazz · saxophone · bebop

Tubby Hayes

jazz · hard bop · saxophone

Seldon Powell

saxophone · jazz · funk

Phineas Newborn, Jr.

jazz · hard bop · piano

Billy Mitchell

jazz · all · hard bop

Chet Baker Ensemble

jazz · trumpet · bebop

Miles Davis and His Orchestra

jazz · trumpet · bebop

Julius Watkins

jazz · hard bop · french horn

The Diamond Five

hard bop · jazz · modal

The Jazz Modes

hard bop · jazz

Kosuke Mine Quintet

jazz · hard bop · modal jazz

Charlie Persip

hard bop · jazz

George Kawaguchi's The Big 4

jazz · japan · contemporary jazz

Johnny Coles Quartet

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Labels

Labels in this genre

Atlantic

Home to Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Charlie Rouse & Phineas Newborn, Jr.

Fontana

Home to Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Art Blakey & Tubby Hayes

Epic

Home to Curtis Fuller, The Horace Silver Quintet & Tubby Hayes

Related genres

Avant-Garde Jazz Modal Jazz Bebop Post-Bop Cool Jazz Soul Jazz Jazz Fusion Smooth Jazz