Blue Silver is a Hard bop composition written in 1948 by American jazz trumpet player Richard 'Blue' Mitchell.
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While the bulk of the music is hard-bop jazz, Jan Hammer's electric piano brings in a distinct jazz fusion flavour, and the congas and percussions add an element of Latin and World jazz.
In the mid-1950s Buckley joined pianist David Martin, trumpeter Keith Hounslow, drummer Stewart Speer (later of Max Merritt fame) and saxophonist Brian Brown to form the first Brian Brown Quintet becoming Australia's foremost hard bop group, regularly playing at Horst Liepolt's Jazz Centre 44 in St Kilda.
Bobby Jaspar (1926–1963), cool jazz and hard bop saxophonist, flautist and composer born in Liège, Belgium
David Rosenthal in his work Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music 1955-1965 dedicated a number of pages to Brooks.
Tommy Turrentine (1928–1997), swing and hard bop trumpeter, brother of Stanley Turrentine
Walter Bishop, Jr. (1927–1998), American bop and hard bop jazz pianist, son of the above