The family of Roy Hargrove has spoken out against a recent documentary about the late trumpet player. “Hargrove” premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City earlier this month. In a ...

When Grammy-winning keyboardist/composer Robert Glasper first saw Roy Hargrove perform, he had a firm idea of what jazz musicians looked like and how they played. When high schooler Glasper saw ...

There’s a scene in the poignant documentary Hargrove where Erykah Badu gets teary-eyed recalling the late Dallas trumpeter Roy Hargrove. The two had been tight since the ‘80s, when both were learning ...

Roy Hargrove—the jazz trumpeter to contributed to albums by artists including D’Angelo, Erykah Badu, Common, and so many more—has died, as jazz journalist and Pitchfork contributor Nate Chinen reports ...

Roy Hargrove, one of the great trumpeters of the under-50 generation, has made a tradition of closing each year with a residency at the Jazz Showcase. That an artist of his stature – who is in ...

“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, ...

Two premier stylists who left us with too little music—the pianist Mulgrew Miller, who died at age fifty-seven, in 2013, and the trumpeter Roy Hargrove, who was forty-nine when he passed, in 2018—came ...