Jazz Articles about Roy Hargrove

About Roy Hargrove

Album Review

Quest'inedito live di Roy Hargrove in quintetto del 4 maggio 2000 è una delle gemme discografiche dell'anno. Il magistrale trombettista aveva appena superato i 30 anni e si trovava in una fase di rielaborazione stilistica, che approderà due anni dopo alla sintesi con la black popular music di The Rh Factor: Hard Groove in compagnia, tra gli altri, di Meshell Ndegeocello, D'Angelo, Erykah Badu. Anche se l'estetica bop resterà sempre presente nella musica di Hargrove, in questa registrazione svizzera ...

Album Review

Roy Hargrove: Bern

by Jack Kenny
April 23, 2026

Roy Hargrove was a unifying figure in jazz. He could move fluidly between straight-ahead bebop, hard bop, ballads, hip-hop, Afro-Cuban rhythms, and neo-soul without ever seeming to compromise his musical identity. This album, Bern, issued for the first time as a posthumous release, is a spectacular marker of a band playing at the highest level. A good band will always produce acceptable music; a great band will sometimes surpass even itself. One of the deepest pleasures in jazz ...

Album Review

Roy Hargrove: Bern

by Pierre Giroux
April 18, 2026

The appearance of Bern, a previously unreleased recording from May 4, 2000, at the International Jazzfestival in Bern, Switzerland, is the kind of archival find that reminds listeners how electrifying Roy Hargrove could be live. Released by Time Traveler Recordings on LP for Record Store Day, with CD and digital download versions to follow later. This set captures the late trumpeter in a moment of confident maturity, blending respect for tradition with the restless creativity that defined his career.

Radio & Podcasts

2024 Look Back

by David Brown
January 7, 2025

For this week's program, I want to pick up where we left off last week, revisiting albums released in 2024 that really made an impression on me. This is not a top ten list, but more of a mix-tape if you will of recordings I highly recommend from the past year. Artists include John Zorn's New Masada Quartet, Roy Hargrove's Crisol, Dafnis Prieto Si O Si Quartet, Fay Victor, Tar Baby, Art Tatum, McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, James Brandon ...

Album Review

Roy Hargrove's Crisol: Grande-Terre

Read "Grande-Terre" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
October 21, 2024

Increasingly and with growing momentum, right up until he died at the young age of 55 in 2018, Roy Hargrove was a standard bearer for a new kind of African American jazz. The recipe embraced a variety of styles--jazz, Afro-Cuban music, funk, hip hop and soul--and it influenced a generation of musicians in jazz and beyond. But Hargrove never abandoned jazz, the foundation stone of his style. Instead he regarded other genres as part of a rainbow ...

Film Review

HARGROVE

by Bridget A. Arnwine
June 8, 2022

Roy Hargrove HARGROVE Poplife Productions 2022 When trumpeter Roy Hargrove passed away in November 2018, after enduring a longstanding battle with kidney disease, friends and fans of the jazz wunderkind mourned what could have been almost as much as they celebrated what was. He was, for many, an accessible bridge to jazz music that curious followers of hip-hop and R&B were willing to explore simply because Hargrove had shown them the way. For others, he ...

Radio & Podcasts

Roy Hargrove, Mulgrew Miller, Joe Harriott, Roy Brooks & Other New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
August 21, 2021

More new and upcoming releases ahoy! And this time with a special focus on previously unissued gems by the likes of Joe Harriott, Roy Brooks, Roy Hargrove & Mulgrew Miller and Bill Evans who came back to the future...Happy listening!PlaylistBen Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Huntertones “Pontiac (feat. Cory Wong)" Pontiac (feat. Cory Wong) -Single (Huntertones) Host talks 3:58 Nicole Johänntgen “Discoland" Henry III (Live in Pforzheim 2018) (Selmabird) 4:32 ...