Post Bop

With post bop ( from Latin post = after and English Bop = Bebop; . Well Postbop ) is from a small part of the Jazz Research retrospect denotes a style of jazz, on the basis of the achievements of bebop and hard bop in the second half of the 1960s years has emerged. Colloquially, the term is partly similar to Neobop used and a large part of the mainstream jazz of the last decades ( to Wallace Roney and John Scofield ) related.

Worked out were the stylistic features of the post bop first time in 2008 by Jeremy Yudkin basis of the album Miles Smiles Miles Davis. Mark is therefore an approach that takes the possibilities of modal jazz and the advanced harmonies in the extremes is abstract and intense and creates space for rhythmic and tonal independence from drumming. It allows flexible forms, structured Chorus game, melodic variation, as well as free improvisation. This approach of the post bop grew out of the interaction of different jazz groups of the early and mid- 1960s, especially the bands of John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Charles Mingus.