Clifford Brown

The two immediate offshoots were the Cool School and Hard Bop [and its offshoot the Funky style]. The Hard Bop movement was centered around New York City and is associated with - among others - Art Blakey, Hank Mobley and Horace Silver, (both of whom were in the original Jazz Messengers Quintet of 1955), Lee Morgan, Donald Byrd, Sonny Rollins, Max Roach, Clifford Brown, and Art Farmer. This is the East Coast Sound offered in comparison with the West Coast Cool - which in turn was a sub-set of the Cool School (as was Third Stream Music). These two movements - Hard Bop and Cool - spanned the decade of the ‘50’s. And in their turn would spawn further developments in the ‘60’s. It should be noted, that Berendt recognized the terminology of East/West as a ‘record company slogan’ not a stylistic description - more accurately the tension was between a Classicist direction and an updated Bop (which also incorporated elements of Gospel, Funk, and the Blues). The Cool School has been sometimes described as a revolt against the complexities of Bop ...»