Roy Hargrove
Roy Anthony Hargrove (born October 16, 1969 in Waco , Texas , † November 2, 2018 in New York City ) was an American jazz and funk trumpeter.
Live and act
He was discovered by Wynton Marsalis while he was attending Hargroves High School in Dallas . The saxophonist David “Fathead” Newman , who performed with Ray Charles at his high school, had a strong influence on Hargrove . Hargrove studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston from 1988 to 1989 , but at that time already performed often in New York and eventually moved to The New School there . There he made his first recordings together with the saxophonist Bobby Watson . This was followed by recordings with Superblue , Mulgrew Miller and Kenny Washington . In 1990 his first solo album Diamond in the Rough was released .
His record label Verve enabled Hargrove to record with many greats of jazz, including Joe Henderson , Stanley Turrentine , Johnny Griffin , Joshua Redman and Branford Marsalis . In 1993 he composed The Love Suite: In Mahogany for the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra .
Roy Hargrove has worked with a wide variety of musicians. At the beginning he often played with Shirley Horn (live and on records); he also recorded with Kitty Margolis . He often worked with Erykah Badu (who he also went to school with), Common , D'Angelo, and Me'shell Ndegeocello . In 1998 he received the Grammy Award for his album Habana with his Afro-Cuban band Crisol . In 2002 he won the Grammy a second time, this time with Herbie Hancock and Michael Brecker for the album Directions in Music .
In 2014, a Manhattan court sentenced Hargrove to two days of community work for being caught buying cocaine . Hargrove was the founder and leader of The RH Factor, where he combined elements of jazz, funk, hip-hop , soul and gospel . In 2009 he presented Emergence, a big band production with singer Roberta Gambarini . After Hargrove was admitted to a New York hospital with a longstanding kidney disease, according to his manager Larry Clothier, he died of heart failure on November 2, 2018, at the age of 49.
Discography (selection)
- Diamond in the Rough (Novus, 1989)
- Public Eye (1991 with Roy Hargrove, Billy Higgins, Antonio Hart, Stephen Scott, Christian McBride)
- Tokyo Sessions (1992)
- Beauty and the Beast (BMG, 1992)
- Of Kindred Souls (Novus, 1993)
- With the Tenors of our Times (Verve, 1994 with Johnny Griffin, Joe Henderson, Branford Marsalis, Joshua Redman, Stanley Turrentine)
- Approaching Standards (Novus / Jive, 1994)
- Family (Verve, 1995)
- Parker's Mood: Tribute to Charlie Parker (Verve, 1995, with Christian McBride and Stephen Scott)
- Habana (Verve, 1997)
- Moment to Moment (Verve, 2000)
- Directions in Music (Verve, 2002, with Herbie Hancock and Michael Brecker )
- Strength - EP (Verve, 2004, with The RH Factor)
- Hard Groove (Verve 2003, with The RH Factor)
- Better Times Ahead (Sideman) (Verve, 2006, featured by Anke Helfrich Trio)
- Distractions (Verve, 2006, with The RH Factor)
- Nothing Serious (Verve, 2006)
- Earfood (Emarcy Rec, 2008)
- Emergence (Verve, 2009, with Big Band)
- A Night in Monte-Carlo (2010 3 Deuce Records, with Marcus Miller and Raul Midón )
- Live in Studio (Whaling City Sound; 2015)
Web links
- Biography, discography and news at JazzEcho
- Obituary (New York Times)
- Roy Hargrove at Allmusic (English)
- Roy Hargrove at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2014: The Year in Jazz , All About Jazz, January 5, 2015, accessed January 6, 2015
- ^ Roy Hargrove, Grammy-Winning Jazz Trumpeter, Dies At 49 on npr.org, November 3, 2018
personal data | |
---|---|
SURNAME | Hargrove, Roy |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hargrove, Roy Anthony (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz and funk trumpeter |
DATE OF BIRTH | 16th October 1969 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Waco , Texas |
DATE OF DEATH | 2nd November 2018 |
Place of death | new York |