VA - Hard Bop 101: 1954-1976 (2007) [9 CD Japan K2 Mastering]

Hard bop is a subgenre of jazz that is an extension of bebop (or "bop") music. 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.

David H. Rosenthal contends in his book Hard Bop that the genre is, to a large degree, the natural creation of a generation of African-American musicians who grew up at a time when bop and rhythm and blues were the dominant forms of black American music. Prominent hard bop musicians included Horace Silver, Clifford Brown, Charles Mingus, Art Blakey, Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Hank Mobley, Thelonious Monk and Tadd Dameron.

Hard bop is sometimes referred to as "funky hard bop". The "funky" label refers to the rollicking, rhythmic feeling associated with the style. The descriptor is also used to describe soul jazz, which is commonly associated with hard bop.According to Mark C. Gridley, soul jazz more specifically refers to music with "an earthy, bluesy melodic concept and... repetitive, dance-like rhythms. Some listeners make no distinction between 'soul-jazz' and 'funky hard bop,' and many musicians don't consider 'soul-jazz' to be continuous with 'hard bop.'" The term "soul" suggests the church, and traditional gospel music elements such as "amen chords" (the plagal cadence) and triadic harmonies that seemed to suddenly appear in jazz during the era



Tracks:

Disc 1
01 The Tribal Message - Philly Joe Jones
02 Airegin - Miles Davis
03 All the Things You Are - Booker Ervin
04 Are You Real? - Benny Golson
05 Autumn Leaves - Bill Evans
06 Bag's Groove - Miles Davis
07 Bean and the Boys - Jackie McLean
08 Blue Lights - Art Farmer
09 Bohemia After Dark - George Wallington
10 Brilliant Corners - Thelonious Monk

Disc 2
01 Caravan - Art Blakey
02 Cherokee - Chet Baker
03 Con Alma - Hal McKusik
04 Daahoud - Ray Bryant
05 Dat Dere - Bobby Timmons
06 Dig - Miles Davis
07 Django - Modern Jazz Quartet
08 Donna Lee - Clark Terry
09 Doxy - Miles Davis
10 Easy Living - Junior Cook
11 Easy to Love - Barry Harris
12 Embraceable You - Charles McPherson

Disc 3
01 Five Spot After Dark - Shirley Scott
02 For Minors Only - Jimmy Heath
03 Four - Miles Davis
04 Fried Bananas Dexter Gordon - Dexter Gordon
05 Golden Earrings - Ray Bryant
06 Good Bait - John Coltrane
07 Hi-Fly - Cannonball Adderley
08 Hush-A-Bye - Johnny Griffin
09 I Didn't Know What Time It Was - Benny Golson
10 If I Were a Bell - Miles Davis
11 I Hear a Rhapsody - John Coltrane

Disc 4
01 I Love You - Art Pepper
02 I'll Close My Eyes - Blue Mitchell
03 I'll Remember April - Modern Jazz Quartet
04 I Remember You - James Clay
05 I Should Care - Ernie Henry
06 It Never Entered My Mind - Miles Davis
07 It's You or No One - Max Roach
08 Jordu - Hampton Hawes
09 Just Friends - Pat Martino
10 Kelly Blue - Wynton Kelly
11 Lady Bird - Dexter Gordon
12 Lotus Blossom - Kenny Dorham

Disc 5
01 Love for Sale - Sonny Criss
02 Our Love Is Here to Stay - George Wallington
03 Lover Man - Phil Woods
04 Manteca - Red Garland
05 Moanin - Bobby Timmons
06 Moonray - Milt Jackson
07 Moritat - Sonny Rollins
08 My Ideal - Kenny Dorham
09 Nicas Dream - Blue Mitchell
10 Night and Day - Bill Evans
11 The Night Has Thousand Eyes - Chuck & Gap Mangione
12 A Night in Tunisia - Miles Davis

Disc 6
01 Old Folks - Jackie McLean
02 Oleo - Miles Davis
03 Olive Refractions - Johnny Griffin
04 Our Deliht - George Wallington
05 Out of Nowhere - Jimmy Raney
06 Out of the Past - Benny Golson
07 Pent-Up House - Sonny Rollins
08 Reflection - Roy Haynes
09 Remember - Montgomery Brothers
10 Ruby, My Dear - Thelonious Monk
11 Round Midnight - Thelonious Monk
12 Sans Souci - Art Farmer
13 Secret Love - Don Sleet

Disc 7
01 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - Thelonious Monk
02 So in Love - Don Friedman
03 Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise - Wynton Kelly
04 Solar - Miles Davis
05 S.O.S. - Wes Montgomery
06 Soultrane - John Coltrane
07 Speak Low - Bill Evans
08 Stablemates - Mal Waldron
09 Star Eyes - Cannonball Adderley
10 Stella by Starlight - Milt Jackson
11 St. Thomas - Sonny Rollins
12 Strode Rode - Sonny Rollins
13 Sweet Love of Mine - Art Pepper

Disc 8
01 This Here - Cannonball Adderley
02 There Is No Greater Love - Miles Davis
03 Theres No Business Like Show Business - Sonny Rollins
04 There Will Never Be Another You - Johnny Griffin
05 Tune Up - Miles Davis
06 Valse Hot - Sonny Rollins
07 Violets for Your Furs - John Coltrane
08 Walkin - Miles Davis
09 The Way You Look Tonight - Art Pepper

Disc 9
01 What Is This Thing Called Love? - Curtis Fuller
02 When You Wish Upon a Star - Kenny Drew
03 Whisper Not - Benny Golson
04 Will You Still Be Mine? - Red Garland
05 Woody'n You - Barry Harris
06 Work Song - Nat Adderley
07 Yesterdays - Mal Waldron
08 You and the Night and the Music - Bill Evans
09 Youd Be So Nice to Come Home To - Art Pepper
10 You Don't Know What Love Is - Sonny Rollins