He also accompanied saxophonist Sonny Rollins for a high-profile New York Carnegie Hall concert around the same period. A furious mix of originals and standards displayed the trumpeter’s affinity with youthful and older performers. The CD featured pianists Geoffrey Keezer & John Hicks, saxophonists Antonio Hart & Ralph Moore and drummers Ralph Peterson, Jr.
Hargrove made his solo debut for Novus in 1990 (when he was 20) with Diamond in the Rough. Hargrove also attended Boston’s Berklee College of Music for a year before dropping out and relocating to New York City. Marsalis began mentoring Hargrove by allowing him to sit in with his band and introducing him to the jazz community.īobby Watson, Ricky Ford, Carl Allen and the group Superblue were among the stars who joined the young trumpeter on stage. Wynton Marsalis, who was visiting his school for a music clinic, noticed him when he was 17 years old. Hargrove was already a fiery trumpeter in his teens, deftly emulating the likes of Clifford Brown, Fats Navarro, Freddie Hubbard and Miles Davis.
Hargrove was born in Waco TX in 1969 and relocated to Dallas with his family at the age of nine. Roy Hargrove was one of the top trumpeters of his time and a pioneer of jazz hip-hop fusion.
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