Today’s show features the idiom of hard bop in the pivotal year of 1956. Some sounds from 1955 and 1957 as well.

Clifford Brown and Max Roach with the addition of Sonny Rollins in 1956
Sonny Rollins Quartet
Philly Joe Jones
New Relaxin Cookin Workin Miles Davis Quintet
Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers
Lee Morgan, 18 years old

**did not get to much lee morgran, no jackie mclean, much left out. big year for jazz! many many wonderful record dates with Arthur Taylor too**

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