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Sonny Rollins: Still Seeking the Lost Chord
by R.J. DeLuke
The Saxophone Colossus. The greatest living improvising musician. A musical god. Sonny Rollins has been called all these things at one time or another by fans across the globe, as well as by those involved in the pursuit of music criticism and jazz history. There's no question he is the greatest remaining icon to come out ...
Earfood
By Roy Hargrove
Label: Decca Music Group
Released: 2008
Track listing: I'm Not So Sure; Brown; Strasbourg/St. Denis; Starmaker; Joy is Sorrow Unmasked; The Singer; Rouge; Mr. Clean; Style; Divine; To Wisdom the Prize; Speak Low; Bring it on Home to Me.
Roy Hargrove: Earfood
by Tom Greenland
Trumpeter Roy Hargrove's 15th release, Earfood, is one of his best, showing that this not-so-young lion is in top shape. The disc features Justin Robinson (alto/flute), Gerald Clayton (piano), Danton Boller (bass) and Montez Coleman (drums), with Robinson's gushing alto ebullience, slightly loose around the edges, the perfect foil for Hargrove's eclectic moods, which range from ...
Roy Hargrove: Earfood
by C. Michael Bailey
Trumpeter Roy Hargrove emerged into jazz consciousness as one of the “young lions" who beamed into the late 1980s and early 1990s. Other notable contemporary trumpeters include Terence Blanchard, Nicholas Payton, Kermit Ruffins, and Wallace Roney. All are associated with different genre traditions, Hargrove's being most closely associated with Lee Morgan.Hargrove's association with Morgan's ...
The Roy Hargrove Quintet: Earfood
by Ian Patterson
In the liner notes, trumpeter Roy Hargrove declares that Earfood was recorded to bring pleasure to the listener. This may seem like a superfluous statement, after all, which artist doesn't want to please the listening public? What Hargrove means, is that the aim of the game is to offer up catchy melodies with a minimum of ...
The New Yorker's 100 Essential Jazz Albums
While finishing “Bird-Watcher," a Profile of the jazz broadcaster and expert Phil Schaap, I thought it might be useful to compile a list of a hundred essential jazz albums, more as a guide for the uninitiated than as a source of quarrelling for the collector. First, I asked Schaap to assemble the list, but, after a ...
Roy Hargrove Scores a New Movie!
Roy Hargrove wrote and performed the intricate jazz soundtrack and musical score for Fred Baker's new film Assata aka Joanne Chesimard. The film's World Premiere was this past Friday, Feb 1, in San Diego as the featured film in the recent San Diego Black Film Festival. Baker's film is about the life of Assata Shakur, the ...
Roy Hargrove: Two Views as a Sideman, With Jimmy Cobb and Anke Helfrich
by Ken Dryden
Roy Hargrove has been one of the most active jazz musicians of his generation, appearing on numerous record dates as a sideman each year in addition to leading his own CDs. The trumpeter/flugelhornist recently appeared with veteran drummer Jimmy Cobb's quartet, along with a 2005 disc by German pianist Anke Helfrich, with sterling results.
Distractions
By Roy Hargrove
Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2006
Track listing: Distractions (Intro); Crazy Race; Kansas City Funk; On the One; Family; Distractions 2; A Place; Hold On; Bull***t; Distractions 3; Can't Stop; Distractions 4.
The RH Factor: Distractions
by Chris M. Slawecki
A straight-up hard bop player of often stunning ability, Roy Hargrove (RH) needs to play more than straight-up hard bop, and sometimes he embarks on outside projects like The RH Factor for explorations beyond the jazz repertoire. He performs on trumpet and flugelhorn here, with an experimental laboratory that includes a double rhythm section (bassists Reggie ...
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