Hard Bop of the 1950s
Hard Bop bands and artists who released albums in the 1950s: 108 artists with biographies and discographies
Hard Bop of the 1950s: bands and artists
The most listened are shown: 60 of 108

John Coltrane

Wynton Kelly

Donald Byrd

Sonny Rollins

Cannonball Adderley
Jimmy Smith

Horace Silver
Dexter Gordon
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Hank Mobley

Milt Jackson
Lou Donaldson

J.J. Johnson

Benny Golson

Blue Mitchell

Kenny Dorham
Gene Ammons
Tommy Flanagan
Clifford Brown

Ray Brown

Max Roach

Art Farmer

Art Blakey
Yusef Lateef
Sonny Clark
Duke Pearson
Maynard Ferguson
Zoot Sims
Betty Carter
Nat Adderley

Curtis Fuller

The Three Sounds
Chico Hamilton
Phil Woods

Cedar Walton
Kai Winding
Junior Mance
Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Thad Jones
Shirley Scott

Johnny Griffin

Kenny Drew

Paul Chambers
Jimmy Raney
James Moody
Billy Taylor
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis
Lem Winchester
Clifford Jordan
Howard McGhee

Tina Brooks
Duke Jordan
Al Cohn
Barney Wilen
Dizzy Reece

The Horace Silver Quintet

Bennie Green
Red Mitchell
Conte Candoli
Stan Levey
Hard Bop by country and decade
Bands and artists of the genre from different countries and eras, the best albums of each decade

