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What is the best Blue Note hard bop album?
Ready for Freddie
Freddie Hubbard's 1961 Blue Note debut set the template for the most technically dazzling trumpet playing in hard bop — assertive, explosive, and endlessly inventive.
Blue Train
John Coltrane's 1957 Blue Note session is raw, bluesy hard bop from a saxophonist on the cusp of his modal breakthrough — direct, powerful, and deeply soulful.
