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Birth of Hard Bop (1954 - 1958)

By Russell Perry | Jazz at 100
June 25, 2019
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While the "Cool School" was emerging on the West Coast from its roots in Bix and Pres as codified by Miles in The Birth of the Cool sessions of 1949— 1950, what became known as Hard Bop, a gospel-and blues-influenced variant was growing from Bebop in the east.

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