In early 2008, I posted about a sub-genre in the Blue Note catalog I called Afro-Bossa Hard Bop. The name refers to bossa nova originals written by jazz artists and recorded in hard bop style between 1963 and 1965. [Photo above of Bud Shank, courtesy of Getty Images]
But in providing background on the bossa nova movement, I failed to include several key…
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