Top Hard Bop Songs
Rank All Time Artist Song Subgenre(s) Other Genre(s) Year
1
1635
 John Coltrane Giant Steps Modal Jazz 1960
2
1829
 Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers A Night in Tunisia 1954
3
2159
 Sonny Rollins St. Thomas 1957
4
2440
 Herbie Hancock Watermelon Man Soul Jazz 1962
5
3454
 Horace Silver Song for My Father 1965
6
3812
 Sonny Rollins Blue Seven 1957
7
3853
 Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet Joy Spring 1954
8
4030
 Lee Morgan The Sidewinder Soul Jazz 1964
9
4215
 Horace Silver The Preacher Soul Jazz 1955
10
4459
 Herbie Hancock Cantaloupe Island Latin Jazz, Soul Jazz 1964
11
4545
 Thelonious Monk Brilliant Corners 1957
12
4755
 Cannonball Adderley Autumn Leaves 1958
13
4857
 Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Moanin' 1959
14
5365
 Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Blues March/Blues March for Europe No. 1 1958
15
5656
 Thelonious Monk Blue Monk 1954
16
6050
 Sonny Rollins Tenor Madness 1956
17
6280
 Sonny Rollins The Freedom Suite 1958
18
7145
 Clifford Brown & Max Roach Daahoud 1954
19
7439
 John Coltrane Blue Train 1958
20
8732
 Clifford Brown & Max Roach Cherokee 1955

Songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 10000:
Art Blakey Quintet Quicksilver 1954
Wes Montgomery Four on Six 1960
Thelonious Monk I Should Care Stride, Vocal Jazz 1949
Miles Davis Straight, No Chaser 1958
Mose Allison Back Country Suite: Blues / Young Man Blues 1957
The Horace Silver Quintet Plus J.J. Johnson Nutville 1965
Joe Henderson Inner Urge 1966
Ornette Coleman Ramblin 1960
Thelonious Monk Monk's Dream 1953
Sonny Rollins Pent-Up House 1956
Horace Silver Seņor Blues 1956
Joe Henderson Blue Bossa 1963
Sonny Rollins Valse Hot 1956
Thelonious Monk Bemsha Swing 1953
Miles Davis All of You 1957
Cannonball Adderley Gemini 1962
Dexter Gordon Scrapple from the Apple 1963
Dexter Gordon A Night in Tunisia 1963