About the Hard Bop Workshop

This workshop is part of a larger series of jazz education workshops and classes offered by the New York Jazz Workshop. This particular class focuses on the Hard Bop language.

Mark Sherman winner of Winner of "Rising Star Vibes" Downbeat Magazine Critics Poll 2007-2010
brings a post bop approach to a program of originals and standards that carry on the art form with a potent level of invigorating musicianship.

The students will perform tunes from the bop era such as Charlie Parker's  Quasimodo as well as hardbop tunes both old and originals.

From Wikipedia

Hard bop is a style of jazz that is an extension of bebop (or "bop") music. Journalists and record companies began using the term in the mid-1950s to describe a new current within jazz which incorporated influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues, especially in the saxophone and piano playing.
David H. Rosenthal contends in his book Hard Bop that the genre is to a large degree the natural creation of a generation of African-American musicians who grew up at a time when bop and rhythm and blues were the dominant forms of black American music. Prominent jazz musicians included Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Miles Davis and Tadd Dameron .