Please answer the following question: Harold Mabern (born March 20 1936 in Memphis Tennessee) is a hard bop post-bop and soul jazz pianist and composer. He is described in The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings as one of the great post-bop pianists. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Artist