Roy Anthony Hargrove was an American jazz musician and composer whose principal instruments were the trumpet and flugelhorn.
27 Facts About Roy Hargrove
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Roy Hargrove achieved worldwide acclaim after winning two Grammy Awards for differing styles of jazz in 1998 and 2002.
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Roy Hargrove took lessons at school initially on cornet before turning to trumpet.
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Roy Hargrove was discovered by Wynton Marsalis when Marsalis visited the Booker T Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas.
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Roy Hargrove credited trumpeter Freddie Hubbard as having the greatest influence on his sound.
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Roy Hargrove spent a year studying at Boston's Berklee College of Music but could more often be found playing in New York City jam sessions.
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Roy Hargrove transferred to the New School in New York.
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Shortly thereafter, Roy Hargrove recorded with the band Superblue featuring Watson, Mulgrew Miller, Frank Lacy, Don Sickler and Kenny Washington.
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In 1994, Roy Hargrove moved to Verve and recorded With the Tenors of Our Time, with Joe Henderson, Stanley Turrentine, Johnny Griffin, Joshua Redman, and Branford Marsalis.
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Roy Hargrove followed with Family in 1995, and then experimented with a trio format that same year on the album Parker's Mood, with bassist Christian McBride and pianist Stephen Scott.
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Roy Hargrove won the Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album in 1998 for Habana with Crisol, an Afro-Cuban band that he founded.
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Roy Hargrove won his second Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Album in 2002 for Directions in Music: Live at Massey Hall with co-leaders Herbie Hancock and Michael Brecker.
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Roy Hargrove was nominated for four other Grammy Awards during his career.
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In 2000, Roy Hargrove added jazz and funk-influenced horns in support of D'Angelo on his Grammy-winning album Voodoo.
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Roy Hargrove performed the music of Louis Armstrong in Roz Nixon's musical production "Dedicated To Louis Armstrong" as part of the Verizon Jazz Festival.
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Roy Hargrove acted as sideman for jazz pianist Shirley Horn and spoken-word artist Common on the album Like Water for Chocolate and in 2002 with singer Erykah Badu on Worldwide Underground.
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From 2003 to 2006, Roy Hargrove released three albums as the leader of The RH Factor, a group that blended jazz, soul, hip hop and funk idioms.
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In 2010, Roy Hargrove released "Live at the New Morning," a DVD of an intimate club performance with his quintet in Paris.
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Roy Hargrove won the trumpet category in the 2019 DownBeat Readers' Poll.
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Over his 30-year career, Roy Hargrove composed and recorded several original compositions, one of which, "Strasbourg-St Denis", has been characterized as reaching the status of a jazz standard.
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In July 2021, nearly three years after his death, Roy Hargrove's estate released via Resonance Records the double-album In Harmony, a live duet recording made in 2006 and 2007 with pianist Mulgrew Miller.
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Roy Hargrove was posthumously elected to the DownBeat Magazine "Jazz Hall of Fame" in November 2021.
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In June 2022, the documentary Roy Hargrove, filmed during the final year of his life, debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival.
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Roy Hargrove's estate issued a statement objecting to the film as not what he had envisioned when agreeing to participate.
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Roy Hargrove died at the age of 49 of cardiac arrest brought on by kidney disease on November 2,2018, while hospitalized in New Jersey.
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Roy Hargrove is survived by his wife, Aida Brandes-Hargrove, and daughter, Kamala Hargrove, who in 2020 launched the company Roy Hargrove Legacy LLC to preserve and extend his legacy.
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In 2022, Roy Hargrove Legacy re-launched the Roy Hargrove Big Band, which gives live performances featuring original band members and other musicians who supported Hargrove in his various ensembles.