Part 8, hard bop and mainstream
The hard-bop period delivers us an incredible amount of extraordinary jazz music. After the bebop revolution, jazz opened up to extremely varied influences: Caribbean, African and funky rhythms were welcomed into the records of jazz musicians.
Among the champions of the hard bop period are trumpeters Lee Morgan and Clifford Brown, saxophonists Sonny Rollins and Cannonball Adderley, original and very modern pianists such as Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea. I have also included in this section musicians who play in a more traditional way, such as Dexter Gordon and Oscar Peterson, interpreters of a less innovative but high quality jazz, which we can define as mainstream.
- Clifford Brown, Joy Spring (1954)
- Sonny Rollins, St. Thomas (1956)
- Horace Silver, Nica’s Dream (1960)
- Cannonball Adderley, Work Song (1960)
- Oscar Peterson, Chicago (1961)
- Benny Golson, Whisper Not (1962)
- Lee Morgan, The Sidewinder (1963)
- Dexter Gordon, Broadway (1963)
- Quiet Now, Denny Zeitlin (1965)
- Freddie Hubbard, Little Sunflower (1967)
- Herbie Hancock, Speak Like a Child (1968)
- Chick Corea, Windows (1968)
Other tracks
- Herbie Hancock, Maiden Voyage
- Donald Byrd, Ghana
- Miles Davis, Someday My Prince Will Come
- Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa