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While a fine showcase for Carlos Miyares Hernandez's raspy tenor saxophone, the transitions between post-bop balladry and danzón in "Danzón" were jarring.
From Chuco Valdés mixes Cuban and American jazzy idioms at the Warner Theatre John Murph 2010
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Along the way the band provides some excellent traditional, bop, post-bop and even free jazz moments.
2009 — The year of (recorded) live music « A Progressive on the Prairie 2009
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While a fine showcase for Carlos Miyares Hernandez's raspy tenor saxophone, the transitions between post-bop balladry and danzón in "Danzón" were jarring.
In concert: Chucho Valdés and the Afro-Cuban Messengers at the Warner Theatre Click Track 2010
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Along the way the band provides some excellent traditional, bop, post-bop and even free jazz moments.
A Progressive on the Prairie » 2009 — The year of (recorded) live music » Print 2009
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Often described as a " post-bop " musician, trumpeter Tom Harrell actually writes music that ' s very much in the bop tradition.
From Swing to Bop Will Friedwald 2010
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He dressed sharply in a conservative suit and played flawless post-bop.
Matthew Kohut: Meltdown: The Year Jazz Threw Out the Rules 2009
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Nitin Vadukal Stefon Harris When I used the term "post-bop," Mr. Harris leaped in.
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New styles had come and gone since then -- cool jazz, post-bop, hard bop, West Coast jazz -- but none had profoundly changed the jazz landscape the way Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie had, making swing bands sound corny and quaint practically overnight.
Matthew Kohut: Meltdown: The Year Jazz Threw Out the Rules 2009
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Four albums released in 1959 redefined jazz, shattering the conventions that had evolved from Dixieland right up through the post-bop era.
Matthew Kohut: Meltdown: The Year Jazz Threw Out the Rules 2009
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After leaving Coltrane's group, Tyner began a series of post-bop albums released on the Blue Note label, in the 1967–1970 time frame.
Archive 2008-03-01 Stephen Retherford 2008
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