Hard bop was the jazz centre of the world from the mid 1950s to the mid 1960s, producing many hundreds of immortal albums. Trying to whittle these down to a definitive Top Ten is funand#151;but it is a subjective and ultimately impossible exercise. In an attempt to dodge those hurdles, the list which follows takes a route a little less travelled and excludes the genre's most celebrated releases, among them: Miles Davis' Cookin' With The Miles Davis Quintet (Prestige, 1957), Sonny Rollins' Saxophone Colossus (Prestige, 1957), Thelonious Monk's Brilliant Corners (Riverside, 1957), Art Blakey's Moanin' (Blue Note, 1959), Charles Mingus' Mingus Ah Um (Columbia, 1959), Hank Mobley's Soul Station (Blue Note, 1960), John Coltrane's Giant Steps (Atlantic, 1960), Lee Morgan's The Sidewinder (Blue Note, 1964), Horace Silver's Song For My Father (Blue Note, 1965), Larry Young's Unity (Blue Note, 1966), Joe Henderson's Mode For Joe (Blue Note, 1966) and Wayne Shorter's Speak No Evil (Blue Note, 1966)... [ read more ]
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