Hard Bop Playlist

Hard Bop — Journalists and record companies began using the term in the mid-1950s to describe a new current within jazz that incorporated influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues, especially in saxophone and piano playing.

🔒 The top 10 are this genre's must-play anthems — the biggest hits no DJ leaves out — so they stay pinned. Tap 🔀 and everything from #11 down refreshes into a fresh mix (from a pool of 122).

1. So What (feat. John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans) — Miles Davis
2. Moanin' — Art Blakey
3. Strode Rode — Sonny Rollins
4. Blue Train — John Coltrane
5. Flamenco Sketches (feat. John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans) — Miles Davis
6. You Don't Know What Love Is — Sonny Rollins
7. St. Thomas — Sonny Rollins
8. Night Train — Oscar Peterson Trio
9. Solar — Miles Davis
10. Love Is A Many Splendored Thing — Clifford Brown
11. I'll Remember April — Clifford Brown
12. In A Sentimental Mood — Duke Ellington
13. My Little Brown Book — Duke Ellington
14. Autumn Leaves — Cannonball Adderley
15. Song For My Father — Horace Silver
16. Hipsippy Blues — Art Blakey
17. Freddie Freeloader (feat. John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Wynton Kelly & Paul Chambers) — Miles Davis
18. Blue in Green (feat. John Coltrane & Bill Evans) — Miles Davis
19. All Blues (feat. John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans) — Miles Davis
20. My Funny Valentine — Miles Davis
21. Chitlins Con Carne — Kenny Burrell
22. Stolen Moments — Oliver Nelson
23. I'm Old Fashioned — John Coltrane
24. Milestones (feat. John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Red Garland, Paul Chambers & Philly Joe Jones) — Miles Davis
25. Locomotion — John Coltrane
26. Joy Spring — Clifford Brown
27. 'Round Midnight — Thelonious Monk
28. Naima — John Coltrane
29. Moanin' — Charles Mingus
30. Speak No Evil — Wayne Shorter
31. Wise One — John Coltrane Quartet
32. Delilah — Clifford Brown
33. Cool Struttin' — Sonny Clark
34. Dance Cadaverous — Wayne Shorter
35. Dat Dere — Art Blakey
36. Moten Swing — Oscar Peterson Trio
37. Work Song — Cannonball Adderley Quintet
38. Peace — Horace Silver
39. Midnight Blue — Kenny Burrell
40. The Preacher — Horace Silver
41. Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting — Charles Mingus
42. Blue 7 — Sonny Rollins
43. What Is This Thing Called Love — Clifford Brown
44. Blowin' The Blues Away — Horace Silver
45. Minor Yours — Chet Baker
46. Doodlin' — Horace Silver
47. Diane's Dilemma — Art Pepper
48. Flossie Lou — Clifford Brown
49. The St. Vitus Dance — Horace Silver
50. Giant Steps — John Coltrane
51. Angola — Wayne Shorter
52. All the Things You Are — Gigi Gryce - Clifford Brown Sextet
53. Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep (Remastered) — Sonny Rollins
54. Conception — Gigi Gryce - Clifford Brown Sextet
55. To Whom It May Concern — Horace Silver
56. Green's Greenery — Grant Green
57. Mode For Joe — Joe Henderson
58. Nature Boy — John Coltrane
59. My One And Only Love — John Coltrane
60. Central Park West — John Coltrane
61. Blue Bossa — Joe Henderson
62. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat — Charles Mingus
63. Georgia On My Mind — Oscar Peterson Trio
64. I Remember You — Horace Silver
65. Easy Does It — Oscar Peterson Trio
66. Volare — Oscar Peterson Trio
67. Love For Sale — Cannonball Adderley
68. I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good — Oscar Peterson Trio
69. Along Came Betty — Art Blakey
70. Dancing In The Dark — Cannonball Adderley
71. One For Daddy-O — Cannonball Adderley
72. Somethin' Else — Cannonball Adderley
73. Hymn To Freedom — Oscar Peterson Trio
74. Daahoud — Clifford Brown
75. Monk's Dream — Thelonious Monk
76. Blues March — Art Blakey
77. C Jam Blues — Oscar Peterson Trio
78. Infant Eyes — Wayne Shorter
79. Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum — Wayne Shorter
80. Boogie Stop Shuffle — Charles Mingus
81. Lonnie's Lament — John Coltrane Quartet
82. Body and Soul — Thelonious Monk
83. Soul Eyes — John Coltrane Quartet
84. Better Git It in Your Soul — Charles Mingus
85. Haitian Fight Song — Charles Mingus
86. Are You Real — Art Blakey
87. Come Rain Or Come Shine — Art Blakey
88. Witch Hunt — Wayne Shorter
89. Skylark — Art Blakey
90. Dat Dere — Cannonball Adderley Quintet
91. Lyresto — Kenny Burrell
92. The Prisoner (Love Theme From 'The Eyes Of Laura Mars') — Art Pepper
93. Nomad — Grant Green
94. Parisian Thoroughfare — Clifford Brown
95. Armageddon — Wayne Shorter
96. Wild Flower — Wayne Shorter
97. K Twist (Take 35) — Kenny Burrell
98. Inner Urge — Joe Henderson
99. Blue Minor — Sonny Clark
100. God Bless the Child — Sonny Rollins

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