#CyrilleAimee w/ #RoyHargrove & #JoelFrahm

Sensational performance by @CyrilleAimee w/Roy Hargrove & Joel Frahm at @SmallsJazzClub. Such a great space! #jazz https://t.co/yrgYC0q0Ci

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Roy Hargrove

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Jazz Musician Of The Day: Roy Hargrove

All About Jazz is celebrating Roy Hargrove's birthday today!

Published: 2015-10-16

Trumpeter Roy Hargrove has firmly established himself as one of this generation\'s premier players in jazz and beyond. Hargrove was born in Waco, TX on October 16, 1969. Inspired by the gospel music he heard in church on Sundays and the R&B and funk music that played on the radio, Roy began learning the trumpet in the fourth grade. By junior high school, he was playing at an advanced level of proficiency. At 16... Read more.

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Roy Hargrove

Born: October 16, 1969

Trumpeter Roy Hargrove has firmly established himself as one of this generation's premier players in jazz and beyond. Hargrove was born in Waco, TX on October 16, 1969. Inspired by the gospel music he heard in church on Sundays and the R&B and funk music that played on the radio, Roy began learning the trumpet in the fourth grade. By junior high school, he was playing at an advanced level of proficiency. At 16, he was studying music at Dallas's prestigious Booker T. Washington School for the Visual and Performing Arts.

Midway through his junior year, Roy was “discovered” by Wynton Marsalis, who was conducting a jazz clinic at the school. Impressed, Marsalis invited Roy to sit in with his band at Ft. Worth's Caravan of Dreams Performing Arts Center. Subsequently, Hargrove was able to return to the venue over a period of the next three months, sitting in with Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard and Bobby Hutcherson. Word of Roy’s talent reached Paul Ackett, founder and Director of The North Sea Jazz Festival who arranged for him to perform there that summer. This led to a month-long European Tour.

Hargrove spent one year (1988-1989) studying at Boston's Berklee School of Music, but could more often be found in NYC jam sessions, which resulted in his transferring to New York’s New School. His first recording in NYC was with the saxophonist Bobby Watson followed shortly by a session with the up-and-comers super group, Superblue featuring Watson, Mulgrew Miller and Kenny Washington. In 1990, he released his solo debut, Diamond In The Rough, on the Novus/RCA label, for which he would record a total of four albums that document his incubational growth as a “young lion” to watch. Hargrove made his Verve Records debut in 1994 on With The Tenors Of Our Time, showcasing him with stellar sax men Joe Henderson, Stanley Turrentine, Johnny Griffin, Joshua Redman and Branford Marsalis.

Every album Roy has released on Verve has been different from the one preceding it. And the same can be said of the array of talents who have invited him to grace the stage and/or their recordings - from jazz legends Sonny Rollins and Jackie McLean to song stylists Natalie Cole, Diana Krall and Abbey Lincoln. From pop veterans Diana Ross, Steve Tyrell and Kenny Rankin to younger stars John Mayer and Rhian Benson to the crème de la crème of jazz divas: Carmen McRae and the late, great Shirley Horn. Hargrove was also commissioned by the Lincoln Jazz Center to compose the piece “The Love Suite: In Mahogany,” which was performed in 1993. He is also a superstar of the international touring scene with his quintet, RH Factor, and as a soloist.

In 2005, he was a featured guest with Slide Hampton and The Dizzy Gillespie All Star Band in bi-coastal tributes to James Moody in honor of the saxophonist's 80th birthday at Disney Hall in Los Angeles, the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and approximately 25 other concerts around the globe. As RH Factor attests, Roy is also a product of the hip hop generation. He can be heard on a cover of rapper Method Man’s “All I Need” the album-opening track of producer Tony Joseph’s 2005 Verve project Def Jazz (instrumental interpretations of rap classics from the Def Jam label).

He has further ventured into the black pop mainstream as a collaborator with edgy soul star D'Angelo and guest appearances on albums by neo soul priestess Erykah Badu, thought-provoking rapper Common, and English acid jazz DJ/producer Gilles Peterson.

Ever stretching into more challenging and colorful ways to flex his musical chops, Hargrove has left indelible imprints in a vast array of artful settings. During his tenure on the Verve label alone, he has recorded an album with a hand-picked collection of the world’s greatest tenor saxophonists (With The Tenors Of Our Time), an album of standards with strings (Moment to Moment) and, in 2003, introduced his own hip hop/jazz collective The RH Factor with the groundbreaking CD Hard Groove (swiftly followed by the limited edition EP, Strength). Hargrove has also won Grammy® Awards for two vastly different projects. In 1997, Roy’s Cuban-based band Crisol -- including piano legend Jesus “Chucho” Valdes and wonder drummer Horatio “El Negro” Hernandez, and guitar virtuoso Russell Malone - won the Best Latin Jazz Performance Grammy for the album Habana. And in 2002, Hargrove, Herbie Hancock and Michael Brecker won Best Instrumental Jazz Album, Individual or Group, for their three-way collaboration, Directions In Music.
~ 2006 ~
Hargrove brought two of his musical worlds closer together with the simultaneous releases of Distractions and Nothing Serious -- all new recordings by both of Roy Hargrove’s touring ensembles. Distractions features the contemporary funk/jazz sounds of The RH Factor. Nothing Serious features straight ahead jazz by The Roy Hargrove Quintet with special guest Slide Hampton on trombone. Verve A&R executive Dahlia Ambach-Caplin explains, “When it came time to work on a new album, it became clear that Roy currently has two sides to his music. Choosing one over the other would not do him justice, so we went for both, approaching them as two separate projects. The quintet recorded in March of 2005 with 15-time GRAMMY award winning engineer Al Schmitt at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles, California. The RH Factor recorded later in May at Sausalito’s The Record Plant with engineer Russell Elevado.”
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At Ronnie Scott's....

Wednesday 29th & Thursday 30th July
ROY HARGROVE
We are delighted to welcome back US trumpeter Roy Hargrove. Roy was discovered by Wynton Marsalis while still at school, and having played with the likes of Mulgrew Miller, Herbie Hancock, Erykah Badu, Jimmy Smith and Sonny Rollins, he has carved out an enviable career in a relatively short period of time. For these shows he will be demonstrating his straight ahead be-bop stylings as well as his more groove based funk-jazz as showcased by his side-project The RH Unit.
His band features:
Justin Robinson (alto sax),
Jonathan Batiste (piano),
Ameen Saleem (bass),
Montez Coleman (drums).

Roy Hargrove Quintet - Earfood

Dianne Reeves & Roy Hargrove - You go to my head

Dianne Reeves - vocals
Roy Hargrove - fluegelhorn
Peter Martin - piano
James Genus - bass
Greg Hutchinson - drums

The Roy Hargrove Quintet - Earfood

Sound nutrition makes for a long life. That saying can be interpreted in a number of ways but there’s no mix-up about Roy Hargrove’s emphatic choice of musical ingredients on EARFOOD. Backed by his awesome ensemble of Justin Robinson, Gerald Clayton, Danton Boller, and Montez Coleman, the double-Grammy Award winning trumpeter has further developed his award-winning technique on 13 solid gold compositions and fully demonstrates his compositional skills and mastery of brass dynamics and tone control. Sweetened by the Midas touches of producer Larry Clothier, legendary engineer Al Schmitt and mastered by Doug Sax, each song is flawlessly steeped in tradition, sophistication and maintains the intuitive beauty, gently swing, hard grooves, and melodic simplicity that has endeared Hargrove to his multitude of fans. The set opens with Cedar Walton’s hard bop gem “I’m Not So Sure.” At the head, Hargrove and Robinson are in full harmonic tandem before Hargrove takes the lead with an impressively crafted solo. Robinson and Clayton continue with masterful solos of their own after which the entire ensemble returns to the head and closes with a rousing gospel filled riff. “Brown” abounds with the sophisticated harmonic lines of Hargrove and Robinson. Originally written for inclusion on his Grammy-winning DIRECTIONS IN MUSIC mainstream jazz recording with Herbie Hancock and the late Michael Brecker, Hargrove's muted trumpet colors overlap the sonic layers the ensemble has simmering just beneath the surface. This is a great song and one can only imagine the sensitive memories associated with it. It is followed by the crowd pleasing spiral sax and trumpet dance Hargrove and Robinson offer on “Strasbourg/St. Denis.” The reflective, pensive ballads - “Starmaker,” “Joy Is Sorrow Unmasked,” “Rouge,” “Divine,” and “Speak Low” - create an impressive nucleus for this masterful body of work. On each, Hargrove enamors his listeners with beautiful emotionally-charged tones and magnificent passages that arouse the senses and feed hidden desires. “Stinger,” “Style,” and the funk-inflected “Mr. Clean” all draw heavily on the swing and bebop idioms and are ripe with Hargrove’s rich melodic, rhythmic and harmonic articulation. EARFOOD is definitely the kind of sound nutrition that is sure to give Hargrove's fans an everlasting taste for his style and artistic endeavors.
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