: Jazz Style question have some questions about Jazz and I'm a beginner. I watched this jazz performance from Joshua Redman and I'm not sure what type of jazz style it is. I want to say its bebop but I'm not too sure. I saw

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Bop getting on for modern I'd say.
(I don't think this question will survive long, but you might as well have an answer. And thanks for giving us some good jazz to listen to!)

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Kudos to @Aaron for giving a detailed answer to this question. I would like to add that these are all excellent jazz musicians from the modern era that have taken the time to study the history of the music and the styles that led up to what jazz has evolved into today, such as blues, swing, bebop, hard bop and modal to name a few.
I just wanted to add that for the first part of his solo Joshua seems to be paying tribute to some of the great tenor saxophonists from years past such as Ben Webster, Gene Ammons, Illinois Jacquet and Stanley Turrentine who all were known for being able to play in a simple bluesy style (but were all capable of much more as well). Early in his solo he is playing the blues and deliberately avoiding more modern phrases and the rhythm section is following suit stylistically.

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I think that this -- or something quite similar to this -- used to be called "hard bop"

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This is straight-ahead 12-bar blues.
The opening melody and saxophone solo are in the style of a jump blues, although in the later part of the solo, he moves into a more modal/free style a la John Coltrane.
The piano solo is hard bop, similar to Horace Silver.
The bass solo also is best described as hard bop.
The closing melody is still hard bop, but in a more modern conception. See, for example, Wynton Marsalis's recording of "Think of One," a Thelonious Monk tune.