Trumpeter Roy Hargrove's 15th release, Earfood, is one of his best, showing that this not-so-young lion is in top shape. The disc features Justin Robinson (alto/flute), Gerald Clayton (piano), Danton ...

MARTIN: Hargrove was a galvanizing presence in jazz, an assertive soloist who could invoke both a blazing sound and softer tones. DAVID GREENE, HOST: His jazz group, The Roy Hargrove Quintet, is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dallas-raised Roy Hargrove was a compulsive collaborator. His group Crisol will be the focus of a forthcoming posthumous release. Hank O'Neal ...

“Grande-Terre,” recorded in Guadeloupe in 1997, shows off the high-wire, from-the-gut jazz Hargrove played most nights of his life.

Roy Hargrove Quintet Jazz at the CentreNorthwest Activities Center Detroit, Michigan January 11, 2014 It seems these days that some of the most crucial aspects of jazz are the ones being downplayed by ...

His jazz group, The Roy Hargrove Quintet, is known for hard-swinging bebop and the kind of soul-searching ballads many fans would expect from much older musicians.

Roy Hargrove Quintet: Live At The Village Vanguard Hargrove is also known for his vital presence in the turn-of-the-century movement known as neo-soul. He made crucial contributions to Voodoo, the ...

Hargrove first emerged in the late 1980s, at a cultural moment when his precocity and poise amounted to a form of currency in jazz, quickly earning the approval of the genre's elders.