Albums of hard bop genre
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The Sentinel (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
1977
Compact Jazz: Charlie Parker Plays The Blues
1992
Volume 2 (Vol. 2)
1956
Young Chet
1996
Soul Station
1960
Far Away Lands
1985
2 Trumpets
1956
Standards
1998
Somethin' Else (Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
1958
Jazz Perennial: The Genius Of Charlie Parker #7
1961
Planet Jazz - Jazz Budget Series
1997
Music For Lovers
2005
Bitches Brew
1970
All that Jazz, Vol. 24: From Bop to Sweet – Charlie Parker, Vol. 3 (2014 Digital Remaster)
2015
Birth Of The Cool
1957
The Complete 'Round About Midnight At The Cafe Bohemia (Live)
2002
Junior
1959
Nights Of Ballads & Blues
1963
Ascenseur pour l'échafaud
1958
In A Silent Way
1969
This Here Is Bobby Timmons
1992
The Duke
2011
Free
1962
Sonny Stitt Sits In With The Oscar Peterson Trio
2008
Moanin' (Expanded Edition)
1959
Incredible Jazz Guitar
2000
Tenor Madness
1956
All Kinds Of Weather
1990
The Best Of The Blue Note Years
2001
Jazz Profile: Cannonball Adderley
1997
Now’s The Time: The Genius Of Charlie Parker #3
1952
Ballads (Deluxe Edition - Rudy Van Gelder Remaster)
1963
Today And Now
1963
Kind Of Blue (Legacy Edition)
1959
Brownie: The Complete EmArcy Recordings Of Clifford Brown
1989
Moanin'
1961
The Very Best
2004
Blues Walk
1958
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
1963
Crescent
1964
Quiet Kenny
1992
The Roost Sessions (1990 Remastered Version)
1990
Mingus Ah Um
1959
Love Byrd
1981
Incarnations
2024
Tune Up
2023
Third Season
1998
The Time Is Right
1960
Cornbread
1965
Blue Break Beats
1998
Ballads
2007
My Desire
2019
Embraceable
2011
The Real McCoy (Remastered / Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
1967
A Day In The Life
1967
Incredible Jazz Guitar
2000
The Best Of Lee Morgan
1988
Page One
1963
Doo-Bop
1992
Let's Play One
2018
Smokin' At The Half Note (Expanded Edition)
1965
The Impulse Story
2006
Poppin'
1980
Inner Urge (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
2004
Places And Spaces
1975
Rojo
2014
Road Song
1968
The Ultimate Headphone & Hi-Fi Album
2019
BD Music Presents Kind of Blue
2021
Quiet Nights (2022 Remaster)
1963
Jimmy Smith-Retrospective
2004
Merry Ole Soul
1969
Red's Blues
1998
The Finest
2020
Rockin' The Boat
2004
So Much Guitar!
1961
Personal Appearance
1957
Today And Tomorrow
1964
Inception
1962
Jazz Giant
1988
Just Coolin'
2020
Body and Soul
2008
Tenor Contrasts (Remastered 2016)
2016
Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
1963
Cannonball Adderley Quintet In Chicago
1959
The Complete Bud Powell On Verve
1994
Kelly Blue (Keepnews Collection)
1959
Miles Smiles
1967
Tequila (Expanded Edition)
1966
Mingus Ah Um
1959
Blues For Myself (Piano Solo)
1995
Reaching Fourth
1963
Blues In The Night
1979
Miles Davis - A Jazz Legend
2021
Seven Steps To Heaven (Expanded Edition)
1963
Milestones of a Jazz Legend - Miles Davis and his favorite Tenors, Vol. 5
2019
Ethiopian Knights
1972
Song For My Father
1999
The Jazz Masters - 27 Classic Performances From The Columbia Masterpieces Series
1989
The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings Of The Miles Davis Quintet January 1965 To June 1968
1998
Talkin' Verve: Roots Of Acid Jazz
1996
Mr. Jones
1972
A Garland Of Red
1956
It's All Right!
1964
The Nearness Of You
1999
Miles In The Sky (Expanded Edition)
1968
The Magnificent Thad Jones (Remastered)
2007
Christmas Cookin'
1964
The Best Of Art Blakey
1989
Blackbyrd
1973
New York Jazz
1956
Karma
1969
Blue Haze
1956
Cool Struttin’
1958
Tauhid
1993
E.S.P. (2022 Remaster)
1965
Live Around the World
1996
Strictly Powell
1995
The Hard Swing
1960
The Sidewinder (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
1999
Pharoah
2023
Backlash
1967
Unheard Bird: The Unissued Takes
2016
Blues & Roots
1960
Blue's Moods
1994
Gone With Golson
1994
The Turnaround
2000
Midnight Special (Remastered)
1961
Hank Mobley Quintet (Remastered)
2008
Pharoah
2023
New Faces - New Sounds, Wynton Kelly Piano Interpretations
1951
Body & Soul Revisited
1993
Kenny Drew And His Progressive Piano
1954
Monk's Music [Original Jazz Classics Remasters]
1957
A New Perspective (Remastered / Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
1963
Introducing Johnny Griffin (Rudy Van Gelder Edition / Remastered)
1957
Search For The New Land (Rudy Van Gelder Edition/2000 Remastered)
2007
Sonny Clark Trio (Remastered 2001/Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
1958
Art
1960
Wes Montgomery Plays For Lovers
2008
Grove
2011
Comin' On
1999
Una Mas
1963
Crawl Space
1977
Porgy And Bess
1959
Tutu
1986
Boss Guitar
1963
Roll Call
1960
The Stylings Of Silver (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
2002
Candy (Remastered)
1957
Six Pieces Of Silver
2000
Work Song
1960
The Big Beat (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
2005
In Person
1989
Ready For Freddie (Rudy Van Gelder Remaster Edition)
1961
Easy Does It
1961
The Musings Of Miles
1955
Wisdom Through Music
1973
Turning Point
2005
Pleasantville -Music From The Motion Picture
1998
Here Comes Louis Smith (Remastered)
2008
Love In Us All
1974
Full House
1962
Red Clay
1970
Blue Note Beach Classics Presented By José Padilla
2012
Bluesmith
1972
Right On!
1999
Blue Hour
1960
Tricotism
2021
Lost Tapes: The Modern Jazz Quartet
2016
The Cape Verdean Blues
2004
Cool Struttin' (Remastered / Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
1958
Kaleidoscope
1983
The Amazing Bud Powell: Vol. 1 (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
2001
The Cat Walk
2007
Verve Jazz Masters 50: Sonny Stitt
1995
Blues In The Closet
1956
Live At The Village Vanguard - The Master Takes
1998
Street Lady
1973
Gerry Mulligan Quartet Vol.1 (Expanded Edition)
1952
Thembi
1971
Pyramid
1960
Wynton Kelly!
1961
Cannonball Takes Charge
1959
Mingus At Carnegie Hall
1974
Milt Jackson With John Lewis, Percy Heath, Kenny Clarke, Lou Donaldson And The Thelonious Monk Quint
1956
Miles Davis And Horns
1956
Bird: The Complete Charlie Parker On Verve
1990
St. Louis Blues
2016
Times Are Changing
1989
The Hub of Hubbard
2016
Back At The Chicken Shack
1963
Modern Art
1958
The Amazing Bud Powell
1952
The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons
2020
Ballads And Blues
1996
Coltrane (Deluxe Edition - Rudy Van Gelder Remaster)
1962
Mingus Plays Piano
1963
Pithecanthropus Erectus
1956
On The Corner
1972
Miles Ahead (Expanded Edition)
1957
Duke Jordan Trio & Quintet
1955
Leapin' And Lopin'
1962
Now!
1963
Gettin' With It
1995
Dippin'
2005
Coltrane For Lovers
2001
My Funny Valentine
1965