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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Roy Hargrove HARGROVE Poplife Productions 2022 When trumpeter Roy Hargrove passed away in November 2018, after enduring a longstanding battle with kidney disease, friends and fans of the jazz ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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, ...