The Hard Bop Style | Video Essay

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A video essay on Hard Bop that I made during my jazz degree.
Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
1:45 Cranky Spanky
3:45 Senor Blues
6:50 Moanin'
10:19 Conclusion
Clarification: The term 'Amen Cadence' as I described it existed before and doesn't necessarily originate from gospel music. The IV - I cadence that the term 'Amen cadence' refers to however, is a notable harmonic of characteristic gospel music.
Music used:
Witchhunt - Album of the Year (1981)
Performed by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
Composed by Wayne Shorter
Soulful Mister Timmons - Album of the Year (1981)
Performed by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
Composed by James Williams
Cranky Spanky - Hard Bop (1956)
Performed by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
Composed by Bill Hardman
Senor Blues - 6 Pieces of Silver (1957)
Performed by the Horace Silver Quintet
Composed by Horace Silver
Moanin' - Moanin' (1959)
Performed by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
Composed by Bobby Timmons
References
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Moanin' - 1958. (2014). [video] Available at: • Video [Accessed 15 Oct. 2017].
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers [Live at the Festival Internazionale Del Jazz 1963]. (2012). [image] Available at: • Video [Accessed 15 Oct. 2017].
Blakey, A. (1957). Hard Bop. [Vinyl] New York: Columbia.
Blakey, A. (1959). Moanin'. [Vinyl] New York: Blue Note.
Blakey, A. (1981). Album of the Year. [Vinyl] Paris: Timeless.
Horace Silver - Señor Blues (Horace Silver, Blue Mitchell & Junior Cook). (2009). [video] Available at: • Horace Silver - Señor ... [Accessed 15 Oct. 2017].
Jazz 625 - Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (1965). (2014). [video] Available at: • Video [Accessed 15 Oct. 2017].
Silver, H. (1957). 6 Pieces of Silver. [Vinyl] New York: Blue Note.
The Estate of Art Blakey (2015). Pictures of Art Blakey. [image] Available at: artblakey.com/chuck-stewart/ [Accessed 15 Oct. 2017].
Gridley, M. (2013). Jazz Styles: Pearson New International Edition. 11th ed. [ebook] Pearson, pp.227 - 255. Available at: www.amazon.com.au/d/ebook/Jaz... [Accessed 14 October 2017].
Tirro, F. (1993). Jazz: A History. 2nd ed. New York: Norton.
Schaffer, Dean (2010-08-20). "Secrets of the Blue Note Vault: Michael Cuscuna on Monk, Blakey, and the One That Got Away". Collectors Weekly. Market Street Media LLC. Retrieved 2017-10-15.
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@kuvaszvizsla9521 Жыл бұрын

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.

@regiashman Жыл бұрын

Totally agree! Hard bop trumpet players are something special!

@sethcampbellmusic Жыл бұрын

What stores are you hearing hard bop in?

@frankmarsh1159 Жыл бұрын

Most stores I go in these days are playing obnoxious computerized teen pop. Seriously what stores are you going in?

@hubertsumlin9697 Жыл бұрын

@@sethcampbellmusic Right! I'm guessing he's not in the U.S.

@richardgrier8968 Жыл бұрын

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.

@anthonywilliams6764 Жыл бұрын

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.

@alfiecoates168 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic story. Do you still go to Ronnie’s much?

@kevinhornbuckle Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this great story.

@coloaten6682 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful story! :)

@MH-il1lk 7 ай бұрын

I'm sure he was a fan of Horace too 😊

@rillloudmother Жыл бұрын

Horace Silver was the man!

@marshallthompson3155 Жыл бұрын

The handoff from the trumpet solo to the tenor solo in Moanin makes me jump out of my seat every time.

@abdulsharif6541 9 ай бұрын

Hard Bop, Avant-garde, Free Jazz, and Fusion are my favorites

@clouddog2393 Жыл бұрын

Hard bop got me into jazz and the great musicians that played it . lt remains my favourite style of jazz all these years later .

@MingusDynastyy Жыл бұрын

Me too! But Bud Powell and Barry Harris brought me back to bebop. Nothing beats the hood classics

@russelljazzbeck Жыл бұрын

This is amazing. Please do more of these on different genres and styles of jazz.

@zaneonmeinhart7952 Жыл бұрын

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.

@vincesoder3284 Жыл бұрын

my favorite subgenre of jazz has always been hardbop

@samuelwerner-wilson1162 Жыл бұрын

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.

@clarenceishmael9615 Жыл бұрын

Been searching for this sound all my life. Now I know what it is. 😍

@STMRecords1 Жыл бұрын

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.

@scowlistic Жыл бұрын

Hard Bop FTW!

@sonicflash5090 Жыл бұрын

Hard bop and West Coast Jazz love 50’s Jazz

@rustybeltway2373 Жыл бұрын

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.

@regiashman Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I didn't know about labels paying for rehearsal days but it makes perfect sense. Rehearsal time makes a world of difference.

@humanbeing5300 4 ай бұрын

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.

@zig019 Жыл бұрын

Fuck yeah been waiting for someone to make a video like this about hard bop. Some of the hardest music out there imo

@rocknroll909 Жыл бұрын

Dude, your channel needs to blow up. This is one of the best music-themed videos I've seen in quite awhile. Thank you

@legaleagles3654 Жыл бұрын

Thanks to KZfaq algorithms, I’ve stumbled across this channel. Thanks KZfaq I’ve just subscribed. Thanks for the upload, very interesting content

@ghostownaproach Жыл бұрын

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.

@richtraube2241 Жыл бұрын

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.

@AntilopeDisecado Жыл бұрын

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!

@BDCTheSloth90 Жыл бұрын

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 😁

@eniigma2943 Жыл бұрын

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.

@DrClocktopus1 Жыл бұрын

Listened to jazz passively my whole life but this video is helping me learn actively!

@Noneofyourbyisness Жыл бұрын

That witch hunt smacked me right in the face like I like it.. sign of the start of a great video 💯

@johngulino2651 Жыл бұрын

Absolute, incandescent brilliance. I’m not a musician at all, but I know genius when I hear it. 😂

@duncanconnor8069 Жыл бұрын

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.

@regiashman Жыл бұрын

Very kind words! Thanks so much, I really do appreciate it!

@Firebrand55 Жыл бұрын

Wanna know what Hard Bop is?.......just watch this excellent vid...

@gereonH Жыл бұрын

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.

@leonlee8524 Жыл бұрын

Rewarching to stay inspired while disabled and unable to play my bass. More on jazz, just like this, please !!

@TheWaffleState Жыл бұрын

I love hard bop! Thank you for this video!

@ishaq24722 Жыл бұрын

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.

@mikegloudemans5937 Жыл бұрын

Thanks, I knew I liked hard bop but didn't know exactly how it was distinguished from earlier bebop. Very nice video essay.

@Isack4 Жыл бұрын

Hopping on the bandwagon of love and support for this video. Great work, hop you got an A ;P

@t.kuenzler Жыл бұрын

Great video

@unknown6390 Ай бұрын

Hard Bop: Can you overstate the power it holds? I don't know

@polymorphic59 Жыл бұрын

This is great, would love to see more videos on other jazz genres

@blackbordeaux9741 Жыл бұрын

Please do more of this stuff. Subscribed and shared. All hail the KZfaq algorithm for suggesting this video.

@TbirdMan Жыл бұрын

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.

@icemanlee666 Жыл бұрын

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

@davidsending Жыл бұрын

excellent

@RocknRollkat 2 ай бұрын

Excellent presentation, thank you ! Bill P.

@johnstag1391 Жыл бұрын

Superb

@justinludeman8424 Жыл бұрын

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.

@CJ-vh2hf Жыл бұрын

Thank you 🎵🙌🏽💖

@alisonCNboy Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@eatmyjustice Жыл бұрын

Great video! Thank you!!!!

@islingr111 Жыл бұрын

A really nice and comprehensive summary, great!

@glenndodd5443 Жыл бұрын

Great video. Thank you.

@danieleichmann3549 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely fantastic essay! Would love to see more!

@whukriede Жыл бұрын

Oh dear, this is excellent. So many insights and clarifications. Couldn't thank you more.

@elliottcrews4997 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the good information.

@KD-iq2tx Жыл бұрын

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

@drrayman1435 Жыл бұрын

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!

@paxwallace8324 8 ай бұрын

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 .

@regiashman 8 ай бұрын

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!

@lukaluquetti Жыл бұрын

This has to be one of my favourite video essays on youtube.

@vit.khudenko Жыл бұрын

oh, so it's the hard bop that I like.. thanks for sharing the knowledge. 👍

@jackmax6019 Жыл бұрын

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.

@LimeyGuitar Жыл бұрын

That was excellent! Love Moanin’ - without doubt THE Hard Bop anthem! I would add Dis Here, Dat Dere and Work Song.

@YoniFogelmanMusic Жыл бұрын

Pleaseeee make more!!

@jazzchamaeleon Жыл бұрын

well done :-) short, concise and very informative!

@michaelfoxbrass Жыл бұрын

Great video - clear explanation of hard bop with excellent musical examples! I’m a subscriber now.

@antonionango9850 Жыл бұрын

Awesome video! Hope to see you do more video essays :)

@demian04_rta Жыл бұрын

Very cool documentary! I really enjoy the way this is edited, feels refreshing and dynamic

@TheDavveponken Жыл бұрын

This was truly great. Thank you!

@fulltongrace7899 Жыл бұрын

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.

@rossonimusic Жыл бұрын

Very Nice Presentation, Thank you!!!

@tomiharu2928 Жыл бұрын

This is great I hope you upload more stuff!

@Justnothing412 Жыл бұрын

Love it Reg! great explanation of hard bop!

@JustinLepard Жыл бұрын

This is great! Hope you make more.

@dem8568 Жыл бұрын

This is a really well made video, I hope to see more.

@CotnerMD Жыл бұрын

Very well done. More of these!

@dr.chrisketo7193 Жыл бұрын

Danke!!! Great!!!!

@Oscaraha Жыл бұрын

Great video! I dont see Wayne Shorters music as hard bop though, thats just something else.

@regiashman Жыл бұрын

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.

@Oscaraha Жыл бұрын

@@regiashman I see, but using witch hunt is just confusing. Why not start with something obvious like Moanin?

@Zoco101 Жыл бұрын

Thank you. This is an excellent video: informative, succinct, and well illustrated.

@JustASnack Жыл бұрын

This video's brilliant! Would love to see more jazz history videos just like this. Thanks a bunch :)

@danielorts1512 Жыл бұрын

Very good video. Clear ideas very well presented. Thank you!

@Kylerjguitar Жыл бұрын

This was very enjoyable and well thought out!

@armandocruz3332 Жыл бұрын

Maravilloso video !

@adolfohuet3974 Жыл бұрын

Nicely explained, exemplified, and presented.

@leo-2145 Жыл бұрын

Love this video! Would love to see some more music/jazz video essays from you :)

@epiphanydrums5427 Жыл бұрын

Very well done, informative!

@juandanielgarciamercado Жыл бұрын

I love hard bop, great video thanks.

@stevehurleydesign Жыл бұрын

This was great! Hope you make some more on different jazz genres.

@SatnamSingh-pd3yh Жыл бұрын

Fantastic video, keep it up 👍

@christiner6000 Жыл бұрын

Excellent video. As jazz progressed my interest went down the Hard Bop path, and this analysis showcases the best of it.

@alejandrosoza9574 Жыл бұрын

Bro you started an essay about hard bop with probably one of the most iconic post bop tunes lol . Great video by the way.

@regiashman Жыл бұрын

Haha good point! It's the Jazz Messengers playing it so I figured I could make it work for the sick opening 🙂

@makaryjasinski2808 Жыл бұрын

Very cool looking forward to see more videos like this

@lucabrazzi103 Жыл бұрын

excellent production quality mate. Keep up these type of vids and you will only get bigger. Well done

@BomageMinimart Жыл бұрын

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!