This virtuoso trumpeter bridged jazz, hip-hop, R&B and soul on his own records and in collaborations with D’Angelo, Erykah Badu and the Roots. Listen to 13 selections. Credit...Illustration by Dante ...
“Grande-Terre,” recorded in Guadeloupe in 1997, shows off the high-wire, from-the-gut jazz Hargrove played most nights of his life. By Alan Scherstuhl Unlike most “lost” posthumous jazz albums, ...
Roy Hargrove, a Grammy-winning jazz trumpeter who shifted from one style of music to another, exploring Cuban and electronic music, R&B and hip-hop while performing with artists as diverse as Dizzy ...
Roy Hargrove, a virtuoso trumpeter who became a symbol of jazz’s youthful renewal in the early 1990s, and then established himself as one of the most respected musicians of his generation, died Friday ...