Listening Guide · Teaser
Hard Bop Starter
Ten sessions from the roster · listen-for notes · a 10-evening late-set plan · Bandcamp & Amazon search placeholders.
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The 10 sessions (teaser)
- Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers — Moanin’ (1958)
- Horace Silver — Song for My Father (1965)
- Cannonball Adderley — Somethin’ Else (1958)
- Lee Morgan — The Sidewinder (1964)
- Hank Mobley — Soul Station (1960)
- Dexter Gordon — Go! (1962)
- Clifford Brown & Max Roach — Clifford Brown and Max Roach (1954)
- Sonny Rollins — Saxophone Colossus (1956)
- Thelonious Monk — Brilliant Corners (1957)
- Freddie Hubbard — Hub-Tones (1963)
Optional after the 10: Jackie McLean Let Freedom Ring · Grant Green Idle Moments.
10-evening plan (overview)
- Evenings 1–3 — Messengers school: Blakey, Silver, Adderley
- Evenings 4–6 — Trumpet & tenor core: Morgan, Mobley, Gordon
- Evenings 7–9 — Architecture & stamina: Brown/Roach, Rollins, Monk
- Evening 10 — 1960s fire: Hubbard · then optional McLean / Green
One session (full album or ~25–40 minutes) per evening — late-set listening, not background multitasking. Or map as a 2-week plan: five sessions per week.
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