MU239 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Philly Joe Jones, Hard Bop, John Coltrane
5 Nov 2018
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In 1955, davis (clean after quitting heroin) formed the first incarnation of the miles davis quintet. The group, while still using the bebop vocabulary, started exploring a more melodic and bluesy style that helped make them of the most popular and influential groups in all of jazz history. One of the first hard bop groups and held start the new genre. Blues) in an attempt to compete with those styles and win back a black audience to jazz: hard bop solos use both vertical and horizontal soloing (bebop is a vertical style) One of the inventors of the modern bebop style of drumming. Known as a powerful musician and intense drummer; his band of bluesy, funky hard bob was (and remains) profoundly influential on mainstream jazz. Over more than 30 years his band the jazz messengers included many young musicians who went on to become prominent names in jazz. In 1955, along with miles davis" group, blakey"s messenger introduced hard.
