Post Bop

Post-bop is jazz from the mid-1960s onward that assimilates hard bop, modal jazz, avant-
garde and free jazz without necessarily being immediately identifiable as any of the
above. Post-bop can refer to a variety of Jazz music that is post-bebop chronologically
but in the common understanding post-bop music reflects these influences: the more open
approach to the jazz ensemble crystallized by the second Miles Davis quintet, and the
modal intensity of that group as well as of the classic John Coltrane Quartet.