an aggressive, driving, hot style of modern jazz developed by East Coast musicians in the late 1950s as a rejection of the more relaxed, cool style of West Coast jazz.
a form of jazz originating in the late 1950s that is rhythmically less complex than bop
Slang definitions & phrases for hard bop
hard bop
noun phrase
A type of music resembling the blues that is related to, but more earthy and modal in approach than, straight bop: swing, bop, cool jazz, hard bop, funky jazz(1950s+ Jazz musicians)