The Hard Bop Homepage

The Musicians

These are the men and women who make the music, the leaders as well as
the sidemen, who have and continue to make jazz a popular music.

Musicians On The Hard Bop Homepage:

A		Pepper Adams • Cannonball Adderley • Nat Adderley • Gene Ammons
B		Dave Bailey • Donald Bailey • Ray Barretto • Kenny Barron • George Benson • Art Blakey • Joanne Brackeen • Nick Brignola • Tina Brooks • Clifford Brown • Ray Brown • Ray Bryant • Rusty Bryant • Kenny Burrell • Frank Butler • Don Byas • Donald Byrd
C		Conte Candoli • Paul Chambers • Ray Charles • Sonny Clark • Kenny Clarke • Jimmy Cleveland • Jimmy Cobb • Ornette Coleman • John Coltrane • Junior Cook • Bob Cooper • Curtis Counce • Sonny Criss
D		Miles Davis • Walter Davis, Jr. • Lou Donaldson • Kenny Dorham • Kenny Drew
E		Teddy Edwards • Booker Ervin
F		Art Farmer • Tommy Flanagan • Ricky Ford • Frank Foster • Curtis Fuller
G		John Gilmore • Benny Golson • Dexter Gordon • Wardell Gray • Benny Green • Grant Green • Johnny Griffin • Gigi Gryce
H		Herbie Hancock • Roy Hargrove • Barry Harris • Eddie Harris • Louis Hayes • Jimmy Heath • Joe Henderson • Billy Higgins • Elmo Hope • Freddy Hubbard • Bobby Hutcherson
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J		Milt Jackson • The Jazz Crusaders • The Jazz Lab • The Jazztet • J.J. Johnson • Elvin Jones • Hank Jones • Philly Joe Jones • Clifford Jordan • Duke Jordan
K		Wynton Kelly
L		Harold Land • Jake Langley • Victor Lewis • Lighthouse All-Stars • Erica Lindsay • Melba Liston
M		Roberto Magris • Les McCann • Jackie McLean • Charles Mingus • Blue Mitchell • Hank Mobley • T.S. Monk • Thelonious Monk • J.R. Monterose • Wes Montgomery • Ralph Moore • Lee Morgan
N		David "Fathead" Newman
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P		Horace Parlan • Duke Pearson • Houston Person • Bud Powell
Q		Ike Quebec
R		Freddie Redd • Dizzy Reece • Jerome Richardson • Max Roach • Sonny Rollins • Frank Rosolino • Charlie Rouse
S		Tom Scott • Woody Shaw • Travis Shook • Wayne Shorter • Horace Silver • Jimmy Smith • Lonnie Smith • Marvin "Smitty" Smith • Mike Smith • Sonny Stitt
T		Art Taylor • Clark Terry • The Three Sounds • Bobby Timmons • Stanley Turrentine • Tommy Turrentine
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W		Cedar Walton • Doug Watkins • Mark Whitfield • Richard Williams
Y		Larry Young
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