Having previously immersed his trumpet in two 'new soul' collaborations in 2000—D'Angelo's Grammy Award-winning Voodoo album and subsequent tour, plus songstress Erykah Badu's Mama's Gun album—Roy ...

Roy Hargrove punctuates his sentences with this strange, quick, high-pitched giggle. It sounds almost like a chicken dying. The jazz trumpeter is a real charmer, too. When told that his new album, The ...

It didn't have the jaw-dropping, mind-blowing impact of Bob Dylan going electric at Newport. But when jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove debuted his hip-hop ensemble The RH Factor at the Monterey Jazz ...

Sometimes it's hard to know whether Roy Hargrove is bored with his career or just having fun. Precocious and prolific, Hargrove was 20 when he cut his first record as a leader, won the Down Beat ...

The RH Factor, trumpeter Roy Hargrove's new ensemble, punctuated Wolf Trap's Jazz and Blues Festival on Sunday afternoon with a fiery, percussive and freewheeling fusion of jazz and R&B. Echoing the ...

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 ...

Texas-born Roy Hargrove, part of the second wave of Young Lions to emerge in recent years, has made his name as a reliable trumpeter, a distinctive player, and imaginative soloist. He has released a ...