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Hard Bop Quintet
Hard bop from the San Francisco Bay Area, with boogaloo, afro-cuban, bebop and down-home blues in the mix.
Lineup
- Scott Larson Trombone
- Jay Sanders Trumpet
- Keith Saunders Piano
- Eric Markowitz Bass
- Evan Hughes / Smith Dobson Drums
About
The Hard Bop Quintet is a jazz group from the San Francisco Bay Area, inspired by the fiery style of jazz of the same name, which fueled much of the 1960s New York jazz scene.
The group began as the brainchild of two Bay Area jazz musicians who grew up together in Santa Cruz, California: trombonist Scott Larson and trumpeter Jay Sanders. The idea was a hard bop group that seamlessly fuses boogaloo, afro-cuban, bebop and down-home blues into the contemporary musical landscape. The repertoire is original compositions by Larson alongside new interpretations of genre classics by legends such as Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan and Kenny Dorham.
The Hard Bop Quintet has appeared regularly at Club Deluxe in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury for well over a decade, and has long featured some of the Bay Area’s finest jazz musicians: pianist Keith Saunders, bassist Eric Markowitz, and drummers Evan Hughes and Smith Dobson.
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