- Joe Lovano
Joseph Salvatore Lovano (born 29 December 1952 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a post bop jazz saxophonist, alto clarinetist, flautist, and drummer. Since the late 1980s, Lovano has been one of the world's premiere tenor saxophone players, earning a Grammy award and several nods on Down Beat magazine's critics' and readers' polls. Joe Lovano exclusivley plays Borgani saxophones. His wife is jazz singer Judi Silvano. - John Abercrombie
John Abercrombie (born December 16, 1944 in Port Chester, New York) is an American Progressive jazz guitarist. Aside from his solo work he is known for his work with Billy Cobham, Jack DeJohnette and the Brecker Brothers. Abercrombie has recorded principally with the ECM label of Manfred Eicher. He also explores often the parameters of jazz fusion and post bop. Abercrombie is 1967 graduate of the Berklee College of Music in Boston. - Phil Woods
Philip Wells Woods (born November 2 1931) is an American jazz bebop alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader and composer. He also performed in other jazz mediums, such a Progressive jazz, post bop and hard bop. Woods was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and studied music with Lennie Tristano, who influenced him greatly, at the Manhattan School of Music and at The Juilliard School. - Kenny Garrett
Kenny Garrett is an American post bop jazz saxophonist and flutist. He was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1960. His father was a tenor saxophonist. Kenny's career took off when he joined the Duke Ellington Orchestra in 1978, then led by Duke's son, Mercer Ellington. Three years later he played in the Mel Lewis Orchestra (playing the music of Thad Jones) and also the Dannie Richmond Quartet (focusing on Charles Mingus's music). - Geri Allen
Geri Allen (born June 12 1957 in Pontiac, Michigan) is a post bop jazz pianist and music educator from Detroit, Michigan, who has worked with many of the greats of modern jazz, including Dave Holland, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette, Ornette Coleman, Betty Carter and Charles Lloyd. She cites her primary influences to be Keith Jarrett, Herbie Hancock and Bill Evans. She is married to trumpeter Wallace Roney. - Pat Martino
Pat Martino (born Pat Azzara, August 25, 1944, in South Philadelphia) is an Italian-American jazz guitarist and composer within the post bop, soul jazz, mainstream jazz and hard bop idioms. - Tom Harrell
Tom Harrell (born June 16, 1946) is a renowned American post bop jazz trumpeter and composer. However he has a disability which profoundly affects his life away from the stage. He suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. On stage he stands away from the microphone, off to the side, his head bowed and his hands clutching his trumpet. When called upon to play, he walks slowly to the microphone, head still lowered, raising it only to play. - Cecil McBee
Cecil McBee (born May 19, 1935) is an American post bop jazz bassist, described by the Guinness Who's Who of Jazz (Second Edition, ed. Colin Larkin, 1995) as "a full-toned bassist who creates rich, singing phrases in a wide range of contemporary jazz contexts." McBee was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on 19 May 1935. He studied clarinet at school, but switched to bass at the age of 17, and began playing in local nightclubs. - Lennie Tristano
Leonard Joseph Tristano (19 March1919 - 18 November1978) was a jazz pianist and composer. He performed in the Cool jazz, bebop, post bop and Avant-garde jazz genres. He remains a somewhat overlooked figure in jazz history, but his enormous originality and dazzling work as an improviser have long been appreciated by knowledgable jazz fans; in addition, his work as a jazz educator meant that he has exerted a substantial indirect influence on jazz, … - Ravi Coltrane
Ravi Coltrane (born August 6 1965) is an American post bop jazz saxophonist. Ravi Coltrane is the son of the legendary tenor saxophonist John Coltrane and jazz pianist Alice Coltrane, and was named after the great sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar. He studied music at the California Institute of the Arts. Ravi has worked extensively with M-Base guru Steve Coleman, a significant influence on Ravi's own musical conception. He has also worked with Elvin Jones. - Jimmy Raney
Jimmy Raney (20 August 1927-10 May 1995) was an American jazz guitarist born in Louisville, Kentucky most notable for his work from 1951-1952 and 1962-1963 with Stan Getz and for his work from 1953-1954 with the Red Norvo trio, replacing Tal Farlow. In 1954 and 1955 he won the Down Beat critics poll for guitar. Raney has worked in a variety of jazz mediums, including cool jazz, bebop, post bop, hard bop and mainstream jazz. - Joe Beck
Joe Beck (born July 29, 1945, Philadelphia, PA) is a guitarist who has been notable in jazz for more than 30 years. Beck also briefly flirted with rock music in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Beck actually plays and has played in a variety of jazz mediums, including jazz fusion, post bop, mainstream jazz and soul jazz. He has played and recorded with numerous artists, including Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Duke Ellington, Buddy Rich, Paul Desmond, Maynard Ferguson, … - Marc Copland
Marc Copland is a post bop jazz pianist who began as a saxophonist. He was born on May 27, 1948 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He became part of the jazz scene in that city as a saxophonist and experimented with electric alto saxophone. He later moved to New York and worked with John Abercrombie. In New York he grew dissatisfied with saxophone and for a decade faded out of view to study piano. - Jack Walrath
Jack Walrath (born May 5, 1946) is a white American post bop jazz trumpeter and musical arranger born in Stuart, Florida, probably better known for his work with musicians like Ray Charles, Gary Peacock, Charles Mingus and Glenn Ferris, among others. - Mick Goodrick
Mick Goodrick (b. Sharon, PA, June 9, 1945) is an American post bop jazz guitarist and educator most noteworthy for his work with vibraphonist Gary Burton's band from 1973 to 1976, where for part of that time he was playing alongside guitarist Pat Metheny. Pat has actually cited Goodrick as an influence. Goodrick is a 1967 graduate of Berklee College of Music, where he also was an educator for a few years prior to joining Gary Burton. - Alex Blake
Alex Blake is a post bop jazz bass guitarist who began his career with Sun Ra in his band Arkestra. He has since established himself as a successful recording artist as leader of his quintet. His most recognizable recording was a live performance compilation released by Bubble Core Records in 2000 titled "Now Is the Time: Live at the Knitting Factory". The album featured his own quintet that included Pharoah Sanders, Victor Jones, John Hicks and Neil Clark. - Marc Cary
Marc Cary is a post bop jazz pianist based out of New York City. Cary has played and recorded with several well-known musicians, including Dizzy Gillespie, Betty Carter, Arthur Taylor, Abbey Lincoln, Erikah Badu, Me'Shell NdgeOcelo, Lauren Hill, Ani DiFranco, Jackie McLean, and Carmen McCray. - Bobby Broom
Bobby Broom (born January 18 1961), birthname Robert Broom, Jr., is an American hard bop, post bop, soul-jazz, and jazz funk guitarist, composer and educator born in New York City. Broom performs and records with jazz saxophone legend Sonny Rollins as well as his Bobby Broom Trio and the Deep Blue Organ Trio. - Bennie Wallace
Bennie Wallace (born November 18, 1946) is an American post bop, swing music and avant-garde jazz tenor saxophonist born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, probably better known for his work with Monty Alexander and Sheila Jordan during the 1970s. His debut recording was done with Flip Phillips and Scott Hamilton in 1977. - Jon Balke
Jon Balke (born 1955) is a Norwegian jazz pianist and composer currently known for his Magnetic North Orchestra. He began with classical piano, but switched to "boogie woogie" at 12, though today he performs within the post bop medium. At the age of 18 he joined Arild Andersen's quartet. By the mid-1980s he worked on his own and would become one of Norway's leading jazz composers. - Biréli Lagrène
Biréli Lagrène is a French guitarist and electric bassist. A "guitar phenomenon", according to John McLaughlin, he came to prominence in the 1980s via his manouche (django-like) style. He is often considered to perform within the swing, jazz fusion and post bop mediums. - John D'Earth
John D'Earth (born March 30, 1950) is an American post bop/hard bop jazz trumpeter born in Holliston, Massachusetts, probably better known for his work with musicians such as Buddy Rich or Emily Remler. - Steve Barta
Steve Barta (born december 25, 1953) is an American-based Brazilian jazz and post bop pianist in Colorado, known best for his album "Blue River" where he performs with flautist Herbie Mann. The album features compositions from Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vince Guaraldi, and is soundly categorized as Brazilian jazz. - Susanne Abbuehl
Susanne Abbuehl (* July 30 1970 in Bern, canton of Berne, Switzerland) is a Swiss jazz singer who performs in various jazz mediums like Progressive jazz, avant-garde jazz, Continental jazz, and post bop. As a child she got lessons in harpsichord, playing baroque music. At the age of 17 she went to Los Angeles where she went to a High School attending music lessons on a daily base. After having finished her studies at the "Royal Conservatoire" of The Hague, … - Valdo Williams
Valdo Williams was a little-known post bop free jazz pianist best known for his trio work with Reggie Johnson and Stuart Martin, who recorded together for the Savoy record label. He also appeared on Canadian television with Charlie Parker in the 1950s and later with Hal Singer in the 1960s. - Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12 1940 in Chicago, Illinois) is an Academy Award and multiple Grammy Award-winning jazz pianist and composer. Hancock is one of jazz music's most important and influential pianists and composers. He embraced elements of rock, funk, and soul while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet", Hancock helped redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section, … - Charles Lloyd
Charles Lloyd (March 15 1938-) is an American jazz musician. Though he primarily plays tenor saxophone and flute, he has also occasionally recorded on alto saxophone and more exotic reed instruments. Lloyd's saxophone playing is often characterized as an individualized, lighter-toned variant of John Coltrane's style. His best known composition is "Forest Flower". Lloyd was born in Memphis, Tennessee. - Taylor Eigsti
Two-Time Grammy Nominee Taylor Eigsti (born September 24, 1984) is an American jazz pianist, most associated with post-bop. He also incorporates elements of funk and soul music. He began at an unusually early age and because of this was often called a child prodigy. He started studying piano at four and by age eight he opened for David Benoit. He had his first CD, not sold nationally, … - McCoy Tyner
Alfred McCoy Tyner (born December 11 1938) is a jazz pianist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, best known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet. Tyner was born in Philadelphia as the oldest of three children. He was encouraged to study piano by his mother. He finally began studying the piano at age 13 and within two years, music had become the focal point in his life. Among many other things, his playing can be distinguished by a low bass left hand, … - Tony Malaby
Tony Malaby (born 1964 in Tucson, Arizona) is a tenor saxophonist in modern creative and post-bop jazz. He works mainly in a trio with Tom Rainey and Michael Formanek. His first album as a co-leader was "Cosas" with Joey Sellers. - Sal Mosca
Sal Mosca(born April 27, 1927 in Mount Vernon, New York) is a jazz pianist who was a student of Lennie Tristano's. He works in cool jazz and post-bop. He began working with Lee Konitz in 1949 and also worked with Warne Marsh. He has spent much of his career teaching and has been relatively inactive since 1992, but did put out a CD in 2004. - Mike Ledonne
Michael LeDonne (born 1956 in Bridgeport, Connecticut) is a jazz pianist known for post-bop and hard bop. His parents ran a music store with his father also being a jazz guitarist. He played with his father at "gigs" from the age of ten. At 21 he graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music and moved to New York City. In 1988 he had his recording debut and joined Milt Jackson's Quartet. - Renee Rosnes
Irene Louise Rosnes (born 24 March 1962 in Regina, Saskatchewan), professionally known as Renee Rosnes, is a pianist and composer in the hard bop and post-bop mediums. Rosnes was three when she began playing piano. Eventually she would pursue further music studies in Toronto, after which she began her international career which would be based in the United States. She is currently part of the San Francisco Jazz Collective. - Bobby Watson
Bobby Watson is an American post-bop jazz alto saxophonist, composer, producer, and educator. Watson grew up in Kansas City, Kansas. He trained formally at the University of Miami, a school with a distinguished and well-respected jazz program. After graduating in 1975, he moved to New York City and proceeded to earn his "doctorate" – on the bandstand -- as musical director of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. The group, created in 1955 by the late drummer, who died in 1990, … - Horace Parlan
Horace Parlan (born 1931 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American hard bop and post-bop piano player. Noted for his contributions to the classic Charles Mingus recordings Mingus Ah Um and Blues & Roots, Parlan often bridges the divide between the chordal sophistication of the bop idiom and the African-American "roots." His later work, … - John Patitucci
John Patitucci (born December 22, 1959) is an American jazz double bass and electric bass player, specializing in post-bop, jazz fusion and Brazilian jazz. - Elvin Jones
Elvin Ray Jones (9 September 1927-18 May 2004) was one of the most influential jazz drummers of the post-bop era. He showed interest in drums at a young age, watching the circus bands march by his family's home in Pontiac, Michigan. He served in the United States Army from 1946 to 1949 and then played in a Detroit houseband led by Billy Mitchell. He moved to New York in 1955 and worked as a sideman for Charles Mingus-Teddy Charles, Bud Powell and Miles Davis. - Marc Seales
Marc Seales is a jazz pianist associated with post-bop. He has worked with Benny Carter, Bobby Hutcherson, and Art Pepper. He is based in Seattle and teaches at the University of Washington. His groups include New Stories and the The Marc Seales Quartet. - Arthur Blythe
Arthur Blythe (born May 7, 1940, in Los Angeles, California) is an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer. His stylistic voice has a distinct vibrato and he plays within the post-bop subgenre of jazz. In the sixties he performed with the pianist/bandleader Horace Tapscott. After moving to New York in the mid-seventies, he performed with Chico Hamilton and Gil Evans. - Eric Alexander
Eric Alexander (born 1968) is an American jazz saxophonist, known for his sophisticated hard bop and post-bop style. Alexander began as a classical musician, studying alto saxophone at Indiana University in 1986. He soon switched to jazz and the tenor saxophone, however, and transferred to William Paterson University. Alexander first achieved fame by finishing second behind Joshua Redman at the 1991 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition.
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