Hard Bop (album)

Hard Bop
Studio album by The Jazz Messengers
Released	October 1957[1]
Recorded	December 12–13, 1956
Studio	Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York City
Genre	Jazz
Label	Columbia CL 1040
Producer	Alan Douglas
The Jazz Messengers chronology
Originally (1956) Hard Bop (1957) Drum Suite (1956-57)

Hard Bop is an album by drummer Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers recorded in 1956 and originally released on the Columbia label.^[2][3] It was performed by the Jazz Messengers and recorded in CBS Street Studio.