Jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove is known best for his straight-ahead and bebop jazz albums, recorded with his acoustic quintet. But the versatile musician also has a band called RH Factor which plays a ...

The Soulquarian trumpeter was an unscalable influence on jazz, soul, and hip-hop. Roy Hargrove, a genius of jazz, a bridge to its r&b and hip-hop futures, has passed away. He was 49-years-old. The 6 ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. AfroPoP is produced and presented by Black Public Media and WORLD. Originally ...

NPR reported that Hargrove died Friday night in New York City. The cause of death was cardiac arrest, according to his manager, Larry Clothier. Hargrove had been hospitalized for a kidney issue and ...

Roy Hargrove had been battling kidney ailments for almost two decades by the time Eliane Henri began interviewing him for an eponymous documentary about his life and career. As the filmmaker followed ...

IF YOU THINK THE titles of trumpeter Roy Hargrove's latest (and simultaneously released) CDs suggest that these sharply contrasting ensemble sessions don't require close scrutiny to be appreciated, ...

“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, an incisive trumpeter who embodied the brightest promise of his jazz generation, both as a young steward of the bebop tradition and a savvy bridge to hip-hop and R&B, died on Friday ...