Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music 1955-1965Oxford University Press, 1993 M09 9 - 224 páginas It's nineteen fifty-something, in a dark, cramped, smoke-filled room. Everyone's wearing black. And on-stage a tenor is blowing his heart out, a searching, jagged saxophone journey played out against a moody, walking bass and the swish of a drummer's brushes. To a great many listeners--from African American aficionados of the period to a whole new group of fans today--this is the very embodiment of jazz. It is also quintessential hard bop. In this, the first thorough study of the subject, jazz expert and enthusiast David H. Rosenthal vividly examines the roots, traditions, explorations and permutations, personalities and recordings of a climactic period in jazz history. Beginning with hard bop's origins as an amalgam of bebop and R&B, Rosenthal narrates the growth of a movement that embraced the heavy beat and bluesy phrasing of such popular artists as Horace Silver and Cannonball Adderley; the stark, astringent, tormented music of saxophonists Jackie McLean and Tina Brooks; the gentler, more lyrical contributions of trumpeter Art Farmer, pianists Hank Jones and Tommy Flanagan, composers Benny Golson and Gigi Gryce; and such consciously experimental and truly one-of-a-kind players and composers as Andrew Hill, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, and Charles Mingus. Hard bop welcomed all influences--whether Gospel, the blues, Latin rhythms, or Debussy and Ravel--into its astonishingly creative, hard-swinging orbit. Although its emphasis on expression and downright "badness" over technical virtuosity was unappreciated by critics, hard bop was the music of black neighborhoods and the last jazz movement to attract the most talented young black musicians. Fortunately, records were there to catch it all. The years between 1955 and 1965 are unrivaled in jazz history for the number of milestones on vinyl. Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, Charles Mingus's Mingus Ah Um, Thelonious Monk's Brilliant Corners, Horace Silver's Further Explorations--Rosenthal gives a perceptive cut-by-cut analysis of these and other jazz masterpieces, supplying an essential discography as well. For knowledgeable jazz-lovers and novices alike, Hard Bop is a lively, multi-dimensional, much-needed examination of the artists, the milieus, and above all the sounds of one of America's great musical epochs. |
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... sounds that are still lighting fires under jazz enthusiasts. “Hard bop,” whatever the hotlydebated merits of the term, was “alive,” by which I mean not just that the music was being played (as it still is), but that it was responding ...
... sounds that are still lighting fires under jazz enthusiasts. “Hard bop,” whatever the hotlydebated merits of the term, was “alive,” by which I mean not just that the music was being played (as it still is), but that it was responding ...
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... sounds of jazz and virtually every block was home to at least a few knowledgeable jazz fans. One such fan was Lee's older sister Ernestine, who—in addition to playing the piano and organ—took charge of her brother's musical education ...
... sounds of jazz and virtually every block was home to at least a few knowledgeable jazz fans. One such fan was Lee's older sister Ernestine, who—in addition to playing the piano and organ—took charge of her brother's musical education ...
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... sound so you knew right away it was him playing.” In 1956—all of eighteen years old—Morgan cut his first records as a leader for Blue Note and Savoy (two of the era's four main New Yorkbased independent jazz labels, the others being ...
... sound so you knew right away it was him playing.” In 1956—all of eighteen years old—Morgan cut his first records as a leader for Blue Note and Savoy (two of the era's four main New Yorkbased independent jazz labels, the others being ...
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... sound, attack, and phrasing that fit in perfectly with Wayne Shorter's brass anthems and with the spirit of the Jazz Messengers as a whole, at once sinister and exuberant. In 1964, Morgan had a hit in “The Sidewinder,” a rolling ...
... sound, attack, and phrasing that fit in perfectly with Wayne Shorter's brass anthems and with the spirit of the Jazz Messengers as a whole, at once sinister and exuberant. In 1964, Morgan had a hit in “The Sidewinder,” a rolling ...
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... sound better that time of morning. They didn't have nothing to do but go to bed. They didn't have to make no shows or be between shows. The job was over.”1 By 1945, the more adventurous among this crew had developed a style—“bop” or ...
... sound better that time of morning. They didn't have nothing to do but go to bed. They didn't have to make no shows or be between shows. The job was over.”1 By 1945, the more adventurous among this crew had developed a style—“bop” or ...
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A New Mainstream | |
The Scene | |
The Lyricists | |
Tenors and Organs | |
The Power of Badness | |
Monk Mingus Miles and Trane | |
Changes | |
The Last of Hard | |
Notes | |
Selected Hard Bop Discography | |
Index | |
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