Roy Hargrove

American trumpeter Roy Hargrove was born in Waco, Texas, on October 16, 1969, and died in New York on November 2, 2018. He was one of the most acclaimed jazz musicians in his field. Influenced by the hard bop movement, one of the "young lions" of his generation, Hargrove's debut album Diamond in the Rough (1991) and his subsequent albums of covers and new works were warmly received, and the Wynton Marsalis protégé's energetic yet sensitive playing allowed him to excel, whether in a traditional style on Moment to Moment (2000) or Earfood (2008), in Cuban music with pianist Chucho Valdés on Habana (1998) or in funk, leading The RH Factor on Hard Groove (2003) and Distractions (2006). A regular on European stages (from New Morning to the Marciac festival), he stopped recording after Emergence (2009), experiencing health problems and battling his drug addiction. He died of a heart attack at the age of 49.

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