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post-bop

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Description

Post-bop emerged in the 1960s as jazz musicians pushed beyond bebop's constraints while maintaining its complexity. The style blends hard bop's soulful intensity with modal jazz's spacious harmonies and freer improvisation. It represents a sophisticated middle ground between traditional jazz structures and the avant-garde.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
69		1956-07	Charles Mingus	Pithecanthropus Erectus	jazz
51		1957-02	Bill Evans	New Jazz Conceptions	jazz
70		1957-08	Charles Mingus	The Clown	jazz
18		1960-04-04	Charles Mingus	Blues & Roots	jazz
15		1961	Yusef Lateef	Eastern Sounds	jazz	hard bop # 45 spiritual jazz # 46 flute # 48
49		1961-08	Oliver Nelson	The Blues and the Abstract Truth	jazz	jazz # 1 hard bop # 69
95		1962	Charles Mingus	Tijuana Moods	jazz post-bop	cool jazz # 10 latin jazz # 41
3		1963	Herbie Hancock	My Point of View	jazz
98		1964-06-01	John Coltrane Quartet	Crescent	post-bop
67		1965	Bobby Hutcherson	Components	jazz vibraphone	vibraphone # 100
80		1965	Wayne Shorter	Speak No Evil	jazz	jazz # 22 hard bop # 79
4		1965	Miles Davis	E.S.P.	jazz
73		1965-01	John Coltrane	A Love Supreme	jazz	spiritual jazz # 72 hard bop # 80 avant-garde jazz # 90 jazz # 94
57		1965-05-17	Herbie Hancock	Maiden Voyage	jazz	jazz # 31 jazz piano # 51
20		1966	Charles Mingus	Right Now: Live At The Jazz Workshop	avant-garde jazz jazz post-bop	avant-garde jazz # 4
76		1966	Max Roach	Drums Unlimited	hard bop jazz post-bop	hard bop # 44
87		1966	Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers	A Night In Tunisia (Remaster)	hard bop jazz post-bop	hard bop # 65
100		1966	Herbie Hancock	Empyrean Isles (Expanded Edition)	avant-garde jazz hard bop post-bop	avant-garde jazz # 98 hard bop # 99
46		1967	McCoy Tyner	The Real McCoy	jazz
82		1967	Bobby Hutcherson	Happenings	jazz post-bop
10		1968	Miles Davis	Nefertiti	jazz
56		1968	Joe Zawinul	The Rise & Fall Of The Third Stream	jazz post-bop
71		1968-06-14	Rahsaan Roland Kirk	The Inflated Tear	jazz hard bop post-bop	hard bop # 32
96		1969	Yusef Lateef	Yusef Lateef's Detroit Latitude 42º 30º Longitude 83º	big band funk hard bop jazz jazz-funk post-bop rnb	jazz-funk # 74 big band # 88 hard bop # 90
5		1969	Larry Coryell	Coryell	jazz post-bop
29		1969	Mal Waldron Trio	Free At Last	post-bop
79		1970	Miles Davis	Miles Smiles	jazz
26		1972	Charles Mingus	The Great Concert of Charles Mingus	avant-garde jazz jazz piano jazz post-bop	avant-garde jazz # 12 piano jazz # 36
6		1973	Sun Ra	Space Is The Place	jazz	avant-garde jazz # 70
7		1973	McCoy Tyner	Song Of The New World	big band jazz jazz piano post-bop
37		1973	Don Ellis	Electric Bath	post-bop
55		1975	Marion Brown	Vista	avant-garde jazz instrumental jazz jazz-funk post-bop soul jazz spiritual jazz	jazz-funk # 12 avant-garde jazz # 43 spiritual jazz # 74 soul jazz # 86
64		1975	Herbie Hancock; Miles Davis	E.S.P.	bebop jazz post-bop	bebop # 37
78		1975	Miles Davis	E.S.P. (2022 Remaster)	cool jazz jazz post-bop	cool jazz # 50
35		1976	George Russell	Electronic Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature	avant-garde jazz jazz post-bop spiritual jazz	avant-garde jazz # 21 spiritual jazz # 69
59		1976	Dave Brubeck	All The Things We Are	instrumental jazz piano post-bop
48		1978	John Coltrane	Impressions	jazz
34		1980	Bobby Hutcherson	Patterns	post-bop vibraphone	vibraphone # 81
25		1981	Michel Petrucciani	Live	jazz piano piano jazz post-bop	piano jazz # 35
52		1982	Sun Ra	Interstellar Low Ways	post-bop
60		1983	Herbie Hancock	Speak Like A Child (Expanded Edition)	hard bop jazz post-bop	hard bop # 15
36		1986	Branford Marsalis	Royal Garden Blues	jazz post-bop
90		1987-10-25	Wayne Shorter	Night Dreamer (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition)	instrumental jazz post-bop
1		1988	Hermeto Pascoal	Brazilian Adventure	brazilian mpb post-bop
89		1990	Béla Fleck and the Flecktones	Bela Fleck And The Flecktones	bluegrass jazz jazz fusion post-bop	bluegrass # 35
8		1990	Wynton Marsalis Septet	The Marciac Suite	jazz post-bop
19		1990	Steve Lacy	Reflections: Steve Lacy Plays Thelonious Monk	jazz post-bop
66		1990	Rahsaan Roland Kirk	I Talk With The Spirits	post-bop
28		1991	Kenny Kirkland	Kenny Kirkland	jazz piano jazz post-bop	piano jazz # 38
68		1991-08-06	Sonny Sharrock	Ask The Ages	jazz	jazz guitar # 16
83		1993-02-16	John Coltrane	Dear Old Stockholm	post-bop
33		1995	John Coltrane	My Favorite Things	jazz	jazz # 59
16		1996	John Coltrane	Expression (Expanded Edition)	acoustic avant-garde jazz improvisation instrumental post-bop spiritual	avant-garde jazz # 1 improvisation # 71
47		1997	Jack DeJohnette	In Movement	post-bop
44		1998	Joe Henderson	Joe Henderson In Japan	hard bop jazz latin jazz post-bop
24		1999-10-05	Eric Dolphy	The Illinois Concert	jazz	avant-garde jazz # 11
99		2001	Bill Evans	You Must Believe In Spring (Remastered Version)	cool jazz jazz post-bop	cool jazz # 98
94		2002	John Coltrane	Giant Steps (60th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition) [2020 Remaster]	acoustic hard bop improvisation instrumental post-bop	hard bop # 83 improvisation # 92
85		2003-03	Erik Truffaz	The Walk Of The Giant Turtle	jazz post-bop
86		2004	Jackie McLean	Destination Out!	post-bop
31		2004-04-20	Cannonball Adderley	Cannonball Plays Zawinul	acid jazz fusion jazz jazz fusion post-bop
63		2005-03-15	The Bad Plus	Blunt Object Live In Tokyo	fusion instrumental jazz jazz bass jazz piano meditation piano post-bop	jazz bass # 99
75		2005-10-11	John Coltrane	One Down, One Up: Live At The Half Note
50		2006	Stan Getz	Voices	jazz post-bop
54		2006	Lee Feldman	I've Forgotten Everything	jazz piano post-bop soul swing
30		2007-04-24	Michel Camilo	Spirit Of The Moment	latin jazz post-bop
12		2008	Bobby Hutcherson	Head On	post-bop
41		2008	Sing Sing Penelope	We Remember Krzeselko	polish post-bop
39		2008-09-24	Yusef Lateef	Eastern Sounds (Rudy Van Gelder Remaster)	cool jazz hard bop instrumental post-bop spiritual spiritual jazz	spiritual # 11 cool jazz # 18 spiritual jazz # 71
97		2009	Max Roach	Members Don't Get Weary	hard bop jazz post-bop	hard bop # 92
45		2011	Eric Dolphy	Out There	jazz	avant-garde jazz # 28
91		2012	Eric Dolphy	Out To Lunch (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition)	avant-garde jazz jazz	avant-garde jazz # 97
9		2012-04-03	BADBADNOTGOOD	BBNG2	jazz
22		2012-11-08	Kurt Rosenwinkel	Star of Jupiter	contemporary jazz jazz jazz guitar post-bop
74		2012-11-30	Jack DeJohnette	Special Edition	jazz post-bop avant-garde jazz fusion	avant-garde jazz # 26
21		2013-05-28	Terence Blanchard	Magnetic	jazz post-bop
92		2014-05-03	BADBADNOTGOOD	III	jazz	jazz # 39 jazz fusion # 55
72		2015-01-16	Vijay Iyer Trio	Break Stuff	avant-garde jazz post-bop	avant-garde jazz # 62
13		2015-04-18	Sun Ra	Visits Planet Earth/Interstellar Low Ways	avant-garde jazz jazz post-bop swing
81		2016	Theo Croker	Escape Velocity	jazz jazz-funk meditation post-bop soul jazz spiritual	jazz-funk # 34 meditation # 47 spiritual # 66 soul jazz # 92
17		2017	Wayne Shorter	Speak No Evil (Rudy Van Gelder Edition)	acoustic hard bop improvisation instrumental post-bop	improvisation # 72
11		2017-01-13	Benedikt Jahnel Trio	The Invariant	post-bop
14		2017-01-13	John Abercrombie Quartet	Up and Coming	post-bop
53		2017-04-21	Helge Lien Trio	GUZUGUZU	contemporary jazz post-bop
40		2017-05-26	Louis Hayes	Serenade for Horace	hard bop post-bop
38		2017-11-03	Maciej Obara Quartet	Unloved	avant-garde jazz post-bop	avant-garde jazz # 23
23		2018	Ari Hoenig	NY Standard	contemporary jazz post-bop
43		2018	Henri Texier	Sand Woman	contemporary jazz france post-bop
61		2018-04-27	Florian Pellissier Quintet	Bijou Voyou Caillou	contemporary jazz france post-bop
58		2018-09-28	John Scofield	Combo 66	fusion post-bop
77		2019	Jon Batiste	Anatomy Of Angels: Live At The Village Vanguard	contemporary jazz jazz post-bop spiritual	spiritual # 60
32		2019	Martin Brandqvist Quartet	Relations	contemporary jazz post-bop sweden
2		2019-02-15	Yaron Herman Trio	Songs of the Degrees	contemporary jazz israel post-bop	israel # 75
42		2019-06-21	Bill Evans	Some Other Time: The Lost Session from the Black Forest	cool jazz jazz post-bop	cool jazz # 20
88		2020-04-10	Jazz Sabbath	Jazz Sabbath	jazz post-bop
93		2020-06-05	Ambrose Akinmusire	on the tender spot of every calloused moment	avant-garde jazz jazz modern jazz post-bop romance	romance # 80 avant-garde jazz # 84 modern jazz # 97
27		2021	Hiromi	Hiromi's Sonicbloom: Beyond Standard	contemporary jazz fusion japanese post-bop
62		2022-03-17	Brad Mehldau	Jacob's Ladder	jazz fusion nu jazz post-bop progressive rock
65		2022-03-18	Joonas Tuuri Quartet	Dimensions	jazz post-bop
84		2023-08-18	Cautious Clay	KARPEH	alternative rnb art pop jazz post-bop

Related genres

• jazz
• contemporary jazz
• fusion
• hard bop
• avant-garde jazz
• italy
• france
• piano jazz
• jazz piano
• jazz fusion