Hard Bop Artists Flashcards
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Horace Silver
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Pianist, composer, bandleader Most prolific composer of hard bop Music arranged throughout Latin, gospel and blues influence Expanded bop vocab Pre-written bass figures double in the left piano hand to emphasize rhythm
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Art Blakey (and the Jazz Messengers)
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Most significant drummer in jazz Dropped bombs Limb independence Energetic and solo like Keen interactions with soloists Bopped, swang Pedagogical contributions
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Clifford Brown (quintet with Max Roach)
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Most influential trumpeters Only recorded for 4 years Wide deliberate vibrato Not so much uppper reg Quintet - Roach (d) Land (tenor) Morrow (b) Powell (p)
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Sonny Rollins
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Tenor sax
Oleo
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Wes Montgomery
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Influential jazz guitarist
