I found this channel because someone just asked me. "What is your favorite jazz genre?" I explained that it was 'Hard Bop' and in particular, I love listening to hard bop trumpeters. If I'm in a store and some comes over the speaker system, I immediately stop to listen and appreciate it. Art Blakey is mentioned here. He always hired great trumpet players for his group. To hear some Clifford Brown or Nat Adderly is still a thrill.
The last time I heard jazz in a record store was in the early nineties. I was in a D.C. Tower records and they played Frank Gambale's Robo Roo, which I bought.
Back in the late sixties Bill Evans played in Ronnie Scotts Club in London, with his trio , and as a regular customer, I was given a front row seat about six feet from the piano keyboard, which was the best seat in the house. A mutual friend named Syd Hadden, who had a band playing in a nearby hotel, introduced my to Horace Silver, who sat down beside me for the three forty five minute sets during which Bill Evans showed the audience how to play his version of cool jazz. Naturally enough the conversation was confined to the breaks between the music, but it was great to talk with Horace Silver, over an extended period in the Jazz epicentre of Europe. Bill looked over his shoulder occasionally, as he could see and hear the chat between us during the breaks between the music. On one occasion when Bill played " Someday My Prince " he looked over his shoulder and smiled as we together gasped with joy as the tune broke through from the verse to the chorus, it was a magical night never to be forgotten.
Would love a video on Post Bop. I'm a huge Mingus fan and have heard his bands described as Hard bop and post bop and would like to clarify the differences.
This was fantastic! I could have watched another hour of this. I absolutely loved Ken Burns' documentary on Jazz but felt it didn't cover the later period enough so this was really good and helped me understand why I like this style whilst not being a huge jazz fan.
Nicely done, sir. Your point about the melodies, I agree. The "heads" on hard bop tunes are indeed stronger (more singable/thus memorable) than classic bebop. I think that's why hard bop is a gateway to jazz for folks raised on, say, rock music (with the drums being the #2 reason.) Are you aware of this: of the 4 big jazz labels, Blue Note, Impulse, Atlantic, and Riverside, that Blue Note would pay the musicians for a day of rehearsal, before they cut the record, where the other labels just paid for the recording session. They wanted the heads tight, more polished sounding, to differentiate them from the competition. So they'd pay for a rehearsal day. The other labels, the players might just show up for the recording session, so they're just reading it down or learning on the fly. (All this according to Berklee prof Jeff Stoudt from his Jazz History class). I really think that's a big part of why Blue Note was so successful. Just thought you'd dig that bit of trivia if you didn't already know it.
Was definitely true for me in terms of coming in to jazz from rock. Hard Bop is sonically the easiest transition probably because of its heavy emphasis on the blues. I actually don’t like early Bebop too many chords for my tastes.
I just increased my jazz education significantly - well done. I dismissed jazz, most of my life, as incomprehensible pseudo-music...through my studies, however, I have begun to appreciate the thoughtful complexity of this genre.
Julian Lage may not use a strictly hard bop vocabulary but I believe he is the only guitarists to truly capture the tone and aesthetic essence of hard bop.
I found your channel the day you released prologue, I can hear the influence. It's so interesting to hear an artist break down the art that inspires there own. I hope that this gets the attention it deserves, and you've earned yourself a life long listener.
Please go on with more Videos. You have definitely a great talent for explaining musical styles. I am a musician and freelancing music critic since 1998 and I really enjoyed your video.
Trumpeters carried it on. Clifford Brown. Freddie Hubbard. Woody Shaw. If you haven't heard Shaw's album "Stepping Stones, Live at the Village Vanguard" you should check it out. I haven't listened to enough Blakey and your expose highlights the Messengers' impact. So much great music, so little time. Great vid.
Shaw's music is considered more post bop than hard bop, but I agree that Shaw's music is very intense and worth checking out. He's one of my favorite trumpeters!
Epic video. This will always be my favourite style of jazz (mainly due to Hank Mobley). Thank you for making a video about hard bop, since nobody else has really tried to ( on youtube) before.
Hey mate, your video just turned up on my recs and ofc I had to watch it. Please please please do more of these, they are evey bit as entertaining, succint and easy to follow as Lee Morgan's solo on Moanin' (not to mention, there's nowhere near enough good video essays about jazz on this God-forsaken platform). Also, the buttery Aussie voice makes everything even smoother 😁
There are two Jazz stations on the FM dial in Southern California KLON (now KKJZ) Long Beach and KSDS San Diego and both have for years featured hard bop on weekends especially and I remember visiting my friend who was working at the Cadillac dealership in town where they had one of these stations playing over their speakers throughout the lobby and car lot and the music was so perfect for the festive atmosphere and was what made me begin to love that sound. For years in my mind whenever I'd hear it I would call it "Cadillac Jazz" because of where I was when I first took note of it but now I have a lot of the albums and CDs.
Interesting and informative. What makes this a great thesis is the clarity with which you described and illustrated the departures from bebop including more solid rhythm section grooves (like so many of the ostinato left hand piano figures heard here), arrangement and compositional strategies, and improvised line styles. Thanks, I enjoyed learning from this and feel inspired to delve deeper into the artists you mentioned.
Excellent work! You clarified the matter fully - a totally on-the-spot analysis! Hard bop is my favorite jazz genre, by far. And "Moaning" may well be the best hard-bop album ever recorded!
This is a great video! It's an accurate description of this arcane historical aspect of jazz. What's known as hardbop or post-bop was a response to the less melodic unpopularity of bop. As hard as it was for jazz, it would have been worse for jazz popularity if not for the advent of hardbop. Indeed Horace Silver and Blakey were two of the most prominent pioneers of hard bop or post-bop. Miles, too was a pioneer of hardbop.
That's fair, and I agree. The Wayne Shorter compositions that everyone knows him for don't fit the hard bop categorisation in the video. I mainly included Witch Hunt because I was listening to the 1981 Jazz Messengers album, 'Album of the Year' on which a version of the song appears and I thought the intro would be perfect for the video. Given that this version was played by the Jazz Messengers, and Shorter had been a member of the group, I figured I could get away with the connection. Especially since I can hear the hard bop / Jazz Messengers influence in that intro. Fun fact: Shorter's album Speak No Evil, on which Witch Hunt appears, was recorded in December of 1964. This was two months after Shorter left The Jazz Messengers in September to join Miles Davis band.
Hard Bop is for me a 63 yr old jazz pianist composer whose definitely paid some dues so for me "Hard Bop" is just one categorization too many. It's just what jazz musicians do. I notice you use Witch Hunt by Wayne Shorter in your introduction. Well on that same 1964 album Speak No Evil are Infant Eyes and Wildflower. If you were to go through and collect all such similar harmonically advanced innovative pieces from him. Like Iris, Teru, Fall, Nefertiti, and really learn all those Waltzes and ballads it might make my argument for me . Another point is that it's hard to understand exactly what a transitional moment the early to mid 60s was. Because the degree of change innovation and vocabulary expansion was impossible to keep up with for both the artists and listeners. Any contemporary player worth his salt would acknowledge how hard it is to get past 1965. If you look at who was on tour in those early black and white 60s..that alone would should blow your mind. Bill Evans trio, Dexter in Europe, Monk on tour in Europe with Phill Woods, Johnny Griffin, Miles Davis's 2nd Quintet, Charles Mingus, Art Blakey, Chet Baker, the Modern Jazz Quartet, the Bossa Nova impact with Getz via Jobim really the list is endless so not too mention Ornette Coleman. So from 1949 to Giant Steps 11 yrs that's barely enough time for a player to internalize the harmonic innovations and practices of Be Bop then in barley the blink of another 10yrs you're dealing with the Avant Garde. People simply don't understand all that radically transformed in less than 20 yrs. So this category Hard Bop hmm Ellington said if you can't swing easy you can't swing hard. I mean a great Cool left coaster like Zoot would more than hold his own in a hard Bop session and vica versa .
I think I get what you're saying. That time period of the 50s and 60s did have quite a lot of musical evolution and development, so I can see how cordoning off and labeling a single segment of it might seem unnecessary. For me personally, I think we're missing out if we just say something akin to "that's just what jazz muscians do" and don't try and examine the specific trends that were happening at the time, not that that's what you were saying. Categorisation is always a tricky and nebulous thing with a lot of differing opinions. For me, I particularly enjoy the music that the Jazz Messengers put out. And if the label Hard Bop lets me quickly describe the music to people, I'm inclined to keep using it. Anyway, thanks for watching the video! I think it's great that we can have nuanced discussions about the music we enjoy!
really well made, but a part of me wishes that you would've elaborated more on "hard bop's" innovations on the bebop style. one of those examples that couldve been mentioned was the furthering of contrafacts. The presence of rhythm changes and other contrafacts is something that's a really important point to elaborate on, especially post 50s versions of these contrafacts. Also mentioning how key players evolved over the course of this era with playing examples wouldve made things really captivating.
Thanks so much for your thoughts and thanks for watching! When I made the video back in university I had to cut content in order to meet my deadline. The video is focussed on hard bop style through the lens of the music by members of the Jazz Messengers. That's why I didn't end up mentioning other important contributors to the hard bop style. Regarding contrafacts, in my research I didn't come upon much discussion of contrafacts and hard bop. To me contrafacts have always been more associated with bebop. If you've got some great hard bop examples of contrafacts or sources discussing them, do send some my way as I'd love to check them out :D
I’d never even heard the term hard bop until about a week ago yet most of the jazz I’ve been listening to and liking the most falls into this category, but it’s good to know what to look for in future, thanks
I've never knew this was a genre. I always thought it was more big band or sextets that happened to play like this cus it sounds good. I've always if anything considered this good jazz
It would be good to hear a Herbie Hancock pre-Headhunters video. I am a big fan of those many Blue note recordings where you could here what he learned playing with Miles and evolving.
Great essay, watch out with the editing though. Sometimes the very rapidly appearing and disappearing words and images can be a bit too much or disorienting. Leave space for viewers to take that information in comfortably. Having something appear for 5-10 frames isn't super helpful. Like your map drawing circles on the East and West could have worked better by layering them on top of each other. Still, great work, very much enjoyed the essay. Love to hear something about the beginning period of ECM, and how groups like Gary Burton, Chick Corea PMG started emerging
And if I may add, what about the interesting development from hardbop into avantgarde jazz / free jazz. The move from Coltrane to Impulse! records (Horace Silver brought out two records at Impulse! as well). I've just started to venture into avantgarde / free jazz, I couldn't really listen to it when I was way younger and more inexperienced. But recently it starts to make a click in my brain...
There were "Hard Bop" numbers that used previously conceived chord progressions. "Juice Lucy" was Charlie Parker's "Confirmation" with a funkier melody.
Great to know and thanks for pointing it out! Defining musical genres is always a treacherous exercise haha! There are always exceptions and outliers that definitely feel like they should still fit within a genre. If I had to clarify I'd say that the emphasis would've been on original chord progressions rather the contrafacts. Guidelines versus hard rules I suppose. Thanks for watching the video!
Excellent video. Great job giving a brief overview and summation of the genre and it's origin. Fantastic examples showing typical elements. 10/10; this totally fucking rocks!
I found this channel because someone just asked me. "What is your favorite jazz genre?" I explained that it was 'Hard Bop' and in particular, I love listening to hard bop trumpeters. If I'm in a store and some comes over the speaker system, I immediately stop to listen and appreciate it. Art Blakey is mentioned here. He always hired great trumpet players for his group. To hear some Clifford Brown or Nat Adderly is still a thrill.
Totally agree! Hard bop trumpet players are something special!
What stores are you hearing hard bop in?
Most stores I go in these days are playing obnoxious computerized teen pop. Seriously what stores are you going in?
@@sethcampbellmusic Right! I'm guessing he's not in the U.S.
The last time I heard jazz in a record store was in the early nineties. I was in a D.C. Tower records and they played Frank Gambale's Robo Roo, which I bought.
Back in the late sixties Bill Evans played in Ronnie Scotts Club in London, with his trio , and as a regular customer, I was given a front row seat about six feet from the piano keyboard, which was the best seat in the house. A mutual friend named Syd Hadden, who had a band playing in a nearby hotel, introduced my to Horace Silver, who sat down beside me for the three forty five minute sets during which Bill Evans showed the audience how to play his version of cool jazz. Naturally enough the conversation was confined to the breaks between the music, but it was great to talk with Horace Silver, over an extended period in the Jazz epicentre of Europe. Bill looked over his shoulder occasionally, as he could see and hear the chat between us during the breaks between the music. On one occasion when Bill played " Someday My Prince " he looked over his shoulder and smiled as we together gasped with joy as the tune broke through from the verse to the chorus, it was a magical night never to be forgotten.
Fantastic story. Do you still go to Ronnie’s much?
Thank you for sharing this great story.
Wonderful story! :)
I'm sure he was a fan of Horace too 😊
Envious of this experience, beautiful story.
Hard Bop, Avant-garde, Free Jazz, and Fusion are my favorites
This is amazing. Please do more of these on different genres and styles of jazz.
Hard bop got me into jazz and the great musicians that played it . lt remains my favourite style of jazz all these years later .
Me too! But Bud Powell and Barry Harris brought me back to bebop. Nothing beats the hood classics
The handoff from the trumpet solo to the tenor solo in Moanin makes me jump out of my seat every time.
Horace Silver was the man!
Agreed ! Ronnie Scott introduced me to him one night along with Phil Seaman, we had a great conversation. Phil was a bit wrecked though as ever.
Would love a video on Post Bop. I'm a huge Mingus fan and have heard his bands described as Hard bop and post bop and would like to clarify the differences.
my favorite subgenre of jazz has always been hardbop
Been searching for this sound all my life. Now I know what it is. 😍
Dude, your channel needs to blow up. This is one of the best music-themed videos I've seen in quite awhile. Thank you
This was fantastic! I could have watched another hour of this. I absolutely loved Ken Burns' documentary on Jazz but felt it didn't cover the later period enough so this was really good and helped me understand why I like this style whilst not being a huge jazz fan.
Nicely done, sir.
Your point about the melodies, I agree. The "heads" on hard bop tunes are indeed stronger (more singable/thus memorable) than classic bebop. I think that's why hard bop is a gateway to jazz for folks raised on, say, rock music (with the drums being the #2 reason.)
Are you aware of this: of the 4 big jazz labels, Blue Note, Impulse, Atlantic, and Riverside, that Blue Note would pay the musicians for a day of rehearsal, before they cut the record, where the other labels just paid for the recording session. They wanted the heads tight, more polished sounding, to differentiate them from the competition. So they'd pay for a rehearsal day. The other labels, the players might just show up for the recording session, so they're just reading it down or learning on the fly. (All this according to Berklee prof Jeff Stoudt from his Jazz History class). I really think that's a big part of why Blue Note was so successful. Just thought you'd dig that bit of trivia if you didn't already know it.
Thanks! I didn't know about labels paying for rehearsal days but it makes perfect sense. Rehearsal time makes a world of difference.
Was definitely true for me in terms of coming in to jazz from rock. Hard Bop is sonically the easiest transition probably because of its heavy emphasis on the blues. I actually don’t like early Bebop too many chords for my tastes.
I just increased my jazz education significantly - well done.
I dismissed jazz, most of my life, as incomprehensible pseudo-music...through my studies, however, I have begun to appreciate the thoughtful complexity of this genre.
Julian Lage may not use a strictly hard bop vocabulary but I believe he is the only guitarists to truly capture the tone and aesthetic essence of hard bop.
I found your channel the day you released prologue, I can hear the influence. It's so interesting to hear an artist break down the art that inspires there own. I hope that this gets the attention it deserves, and you've earned yourself a life long listener.
Very kind words! Thanks so much, I really do appreciate it!
Thanks to RUclips algorithms, I’ve stumbled across this channel.
Thanks RUclips I’ve just subscribed.
Thanks for the upload, very interesting content
Hard bop and West Coast Jazz love 50’s Jazz
I love hard bop! Thank you for this video!
Listened to jazz passively my whole life but this video is helping me learn actively!
Please go on with more Videos. You have definitely a great talent for explaining musical styles. I am a musician and freelancing music critic since 1998 and I really enjoyed your video.
A really nice and comprehensive summary, great!
Wanna know what Hard Bop is?.......just watch this excellent vid...
This is great, would love to see more videos on other jazz genres
This has to be one of my favourite video essays on youtube.
Trumpeters carried it on. Clifford Brown. Freddie Hubbard. Woody Shaw.
If you haven't heard Shaw's album "Stepping Stones, Live at the Village Vanguard" you should check it out.
I haven't listened to enough Blakey and your expose highlights the Messengers' impact. So much great music, so little time. Great vid.
Shaw's music is considered more post bop than hard bop, but I agree that Shaw's music is very intense and worth checking out. He's one of my favorite trumpeters!
Epic video. This will always be my favourite style of jazz (mainly due to Hank Mobley). Thank you for making a video about hard bop, since nobody else has really tried to ( on youtube) before.
Absolutely fantastic essay! Would love to see more!
Thanks, I knew I liked hard bop but didn't know exactly how it was distinguished from earlier bebop. Very nice video essay.
Hey mate, your video just turned up on my recs and ofc I had to watch it. Please please please do more of these, they are evey bit as entertaining, succint and easy to follow as Lee Morgan's solo on Moanin' (not to mention, there's nowhere near enough good video essays about jazz on this God-forsaken platform). Also, the buttery Aussie voice makes everything even smoother 😁
There are two Jazz stations on the FM dial in Southern California KLON (now KKJZ) Long Beach and KSDS San Diego and both have for years featured hard bop on weekends especially and I remember visiting my friend who was working at the Cadillac dealership in town where they had one of these stations playing over their speakers throughout the lobby and car lot and the music was so perfect for the festive atmosphere and was what made me begin to love that sound. For years in my mind whenever I'd hear it I would call it "Cadillac Jazz" because of where I was when I first took note of it but now I have a lot of the albums and CDs.
Rewarching to stay inspired while disabled and unable to play my bass. More on jazz, just like this, please !!
Oh dear, this is excellent. So many insights and clarifications. Couldn't thank you more.
The music speaks for itself!
Interesting and informative. What makes this a great thesis is the clarity with which you described and illustrated the departures from bebop including more solid rhythm section grooves (like so many of the ostinato left hand piano figures heard here), arrangement and compositional strategies, and improvised line styles.
Thanks, I enjoyed learning from this and feel inspired to delve deeper into the artists you mentioned.
Hard Bop FTW!
Excellent work! You clarified the matter fully - a totally on-the-spot analysis! Hard bop is my favorite jazz genre, by far. And "Moaning" may well be the best hard-bop album ever recorded!
Very cool documentary! I really enjoy the way this is edited, feels refreshing and dynamic
Please do more of this stuff. Subscribed and shared.
All hail the RUclips algorithm for suggesting this video.
Fuck yeah been waiting for someone to make a video like this about hard bop. Some of the hardest music out there imo
Bro you started an essay about hard bop with probably one of the most iconic post bop tunes lol . Great video by the way.
Haha good point! It's the Jazz Messengers playing it so I figured I could make it work for the sick opening 🙂
This is a great video! It's an accurate description of this arcane historical aspect of jazz. What's known as hardbop or post-bop was a response to the less melodic unpopularity of bop. As hard as it was for jazz, it would have been worse for jazz popularity if not for the advent of hardbop. Indeed Horace Silver and Blakey were two of the most prominent pioneers of hard bop or post-bop. Miles, too was a pioneer of hardbop.
This was truly great. Thank you!
Thank you. This is an excellent video: informative, succinct, and well illustrated.
Great video - clear explanation of hard bop with excellent musical examples! I’m a subscriber now.
Great video! I dont see Wayne Shorters music as hard bop though, thats just something else.
That's fair, and I agree. The Wayne Shorter compositions that everyone knows him for don't fit the hard bop categorisation in the video. I mainly included Witch Hunt because I was listening to the 1981 Jazz Messengers album, 'Album of the Year' on which a version of the song appears and I thought the intro would be perfect for the video. Given that this version was played by the Jazz Messengers, and Shorter had been a member of the group, I figured I could get away with the connection. Especially since I can hear the hard bop / Jazz Messengers influence in that intro.
Fun fact: Shorter's album Speak No Evil, on which Witch Hunt appears, was recorded in December of 1964. This was two months after Shorter left The Jazz Messengers in September to join Miles Davis band.
@@regiashman I see, but using witch hunt is just confusing. Why not start with something obvious like Moanin?
Love this video! Would love to see some more music/jazz video essays from you :)
Excellent presentation, thank you !
Bill P.
Hopping on the bandwagon of love and support for this video. Great work, hop you got an A ;P
Great video. Thank you.
LOVE this video. I’m workin’ and lurkin’. Great voice overs, video content, and educational material here. Thank you 🙏
Excellent. I've been listening to a lot of Hard Bop lately and it great to deepen my understanding of the music, as a non-musian.
Awesome video! Hope to see you do more video essays :)
Thanks for the good information.
This video's brilliant! Would love to see more jazz history videos just like this. Thanks a bunch :)
This is a really well made video, I hope to see more.
That witch hunt smacked me right in the face like I like it.. sign of the start of a great video 💯
Thank you so much!
Hard Bop is for me a 63 yr old jazz pianist composer whose definitely paid some dues so for me "Hard Bop" is just one categorization too many. It's just what jazz musicians do. I notice you use Witch Hunt by Wayne Shorter in your introduction. Well on that same 1964 album Speak No Evil are Infant Eyes and Wildflower. If you were to go through and collect all such similar harmonically advanced innovative pieces from him. Like Iris, Teru, Fall, Nefertiti, and really learn all those Waltzes and ballads it might make my argument for me . Another point is that it's hard to understand exactly what a transitional moment the early to mid 60s was. Because the degree of change innovation and vocabulary expansion was impossible to keep up with for both the artists and listeners. Any contemporary player worth his salt would acknowledge how hard it is to get past 1965. If you look at who was on tour in those early black and white 60s..that alone would should blow your mind. Bill Evans trio, Dexter in Europe, Monk on tour in Europe with Phill Woods, Johnny Griffin, Miles Davis's 2nd Quintet, Charles Mingus, Art Blakey, Chet Baker, the Modern Jazz Quartet, the Bossa Nova impact with Getz via Jobim really the list is endless so not too mention Ornette Coleman. So from 1949 to Giant Steps 11 yrs that's barely enough time for a player to internalize the harmonic innovations and practices of Be Bop then in barley the blink of another 10yrs you're dealing with the Avant Garde. People simply don't understand all that radically transformed in less than 20 yrs. So this category Hard Bop hmm Ellington said if you can't swing easy you can't swing hard. I mean a great Cool left coaster like Zoot would more than hold his own in a hard Bop session and vica versa .
I think I get what you're saying. That time period of the 50s and 60s did have quite a lot of musical evolution and development, so I can see how cordoning off and labeling a single segment of it might seem unnecessary. For me personally, I think we're missing out if we just say something akin to "that's just what jazz muscians do" and don't try and examine the specific trends that were happening at the time, not that that's what you were saying. Categorisation is always a tricky and nebulous thing with a lot of differing opinions. For me, I particularly enjoy the music that the Jazz Messengers put out. And if the label Hard Bop lets me quickly describe the music to people, I'm inclined to keep using it.
Anyway, thanks for watching the video! I think it's great that we can have nuanced discussions about the music we enjoy!
Absolute, incandescent brilliance. I’m not a musician at all, but I know genius when I hear it. 😂
really well made, but a part of me wishes that you would've elaborated more on "hard bop's" innovations on the bebop style. one of those examples that couldve been mentioned was the furthering of contrafacts. The presence of rhythm changes and other contrafacts is something that's a really important point to elaborate on, especially post 50s versions of these contrafacts. Also mentioning how key players evolved over the course of this era with playing examples wouldve made things really captivating.
Thanks so much for your thoughts and thanks for watching! When I made the video back in university I had to cut content in order to meet my deadline. The video is focussed on hard bop style through the lens of the music by members of the Jazz Messengers. That's why I didn't end up mentioning other important contributors to the hard bop style.
Regarding contrafacts, in my research I didn't come upon much discussion of contrafacts and hard bop. To me contrafacts have always been more associated with bebop. If you've got some great hard bop examples of contrafacts or sources discussing them, do send some my way as I'd love to check them out :D
oh, so it's the hard bop that I like.. thanks for sharing the knowledge. 👍
excellent
well done :-) short, concise and very informative!
Thank you 🎵🙌🏽💖
Excellent video. As jazz progressed my interest went down the Hard Bop path, and this analysis showcases the best of it.
I’d never even heard the term hard bop until about a week ago yet most of the jazz I’ve been listening to and liking the most falls into this category, but it’s good to know what to look for in future, thanks
Very Nice Presentation, Thank you!!!
I've never knew this was a genre. I always thought it was more big band or sextets that happened to play like this cus it sounds good. I've always if anything considered this good jazz
Danke!!! Great!!!!
It would be good to hear a Herbie Hancock pre-Headhunters video. I am a big fan of those many Blue note recordings where you could here what he learned playing with Miles and evolving.
Superb
Great essay, watch out with the editing though. Sometimes the very rapidly appearing and disappearing words and images can be a bit too much or disorienting. Leave space for viewers to take that information in comfortably. Having something appear for 5-10 frames isn't super helpful. Like your map drawing circles on the East and West could have worked better by layering them on top of each other.
Still, great work, very much enjoyed the essay. Love to hear something about the beginning period of ECM, and how groups like Gary Burton, Chick Corea PMG started emerging
And if I may add, what about the interesting development from hardbop into avantgarde jazz / free jazz. The move from Coltrane to Impulse! records (Horace Silver brought out two records at Impulse! as well).
I've just started to venture into avantgarde / free jazz, I couldn't really listen to it when I was way younger and more inexperienced. But recently it starts to make a click in my brain...
Amen cadence + Amen break = I gotta song, Amen.
Very well done. More of these!
Very cool looking forward to see more videos like this
That was excellent! Love Moanin’ - without doubt THE Hard Bop anthem! I would add Dis Here, Dat Dere and Work Song.
Maravilloso video !
This was very enjoyable and well thought out!
There were "Hard Bop" numbers that used previously conceived chord progressions.
"Juice Lucy" was Charlie Parker's "Confirmation" with a funkier melody.
Great to know and thanks for pointing it out!
Defining musical genres is always a treacherous exercise haha! There are always exceptions and outliers that definitely feel like they should still fit within a genre. If I had to clarify I'd say that the emphasis would've been on original chord progressions rather the contrafacts. Guidelines versus hard rules I suppose.
Thanks for watching the video!
You should do a video on every sub genre of jazz
Pleaseeee make more!!
Fantastic video, keep it up 👍
Hard Bop: Can you overstate the power it holds? I don't know
Love it Reg! great explanation of hard bop!
Nicely explained, exemplified, and presented.
excellent production quality mate. Keep up these type of vids and you will only get bigger. Well done
Great video, except I wish it was 4-5 longer!
Excellent video. Great job giving a brief overview and summation of the genre and it's origin. Fantastic examples showing typical elements. 10/10; this totally fucking rocks!
I love hard bop, great video thanks.
Very good video. Clear ideas very well presented. Thank you!
More of this🎶💪🏿!
Nice one
I appriciate your postd
I'd like to learn more
about jazz😊
Just a big THANK YOU for educating us!
Lots of love from Chile. Suscribed!
would love to see more videos like!
Very well done, informative!
This is great! Hope you make more.
Great video
There's no way this ain't demonetized. Great stuff tho man
Perhaps demonetized, but at least not demonized 😉
@@gideonk123 I mean you gotta be possessed by a demon to play as good as those guys. Or 50 to play like brecker