Post Bop

Post-Bop materialised in the 1960s in the dimly lit jazz clubs of New York, where musicians managed to craft a genre that was both daring and sophisticated, as if they were trying to impress a particularly discerning cat. It blends the improvisational freedom of bebop with more complex harmonies and rhythms, sounding like a spirited conversation between instruments that occasionally digresses into a passionate debate. Many might say it is the genre where jazz finally realised it could have a sense of humour, but rest assured, only the most pretentious of cats would ever mention that at a dinner party.