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Hard Bop

419 reviewed records, 1953 to 2017

Every Hard Bop record reviewed on Vinyl Standard: 419 albums, 1953 to 2017, by 84 artists, led by Oscar Peterson, Donald Byrd, Benny Golson. Every record links to its review.

419Reviewed records
84Artists
1953–2017Years
159Five-star records

Most reviewed artists

Who turns up most in Hard Bop among the records reviewed here. The number is reviewed records in this genre.

On which labels

The labels behind the Hard Bop records reviewed here.

Reviewed records

By year of release as printed on the review. Red is the site’s rating out of five.

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The genre comes from the category line of each review, as the reviewer filed it, so a record can appear in more than one genre and this is not a definition of Hard Bop. It lists only records reviewed here and updates when a new review goes up.