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Roy Hargrove was an American trumpeter whose Crisol project won the 1998 Latin Jazz Grammy for Habana and linked hard bop with Afro-Cuban music.
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What was Roy Hargrove's Crisol project?
Crisol was Hargrove's Afro-Cuban jazz project, built with musicians including Chucho Valdes and Jose Luis Quintana, also known as Changuito. The album Habana won the Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Performance in 1998.
Why do people connect Roy Hargrove to both jazz and neo-soul?
Hargrove was a hard-bop trumpeter, but he also worked in the late-1990s and early-2000s soul and hip-hop orbit. He played on D'Angelo's Voodoo, released in 2000, and later led The RH Factor, a group that fused jazz, funk, and R&B.
What Roy Hargrove album should explain his trumpet sound?
Earfood, released in 2008, is a common entry point because it shows his lyrical trumpet tone in a straight-ahead quintet setting. It includes Hargrove originals such as Strasbourg/St. Denis, one of his best-known live staples.
When did Roy Hargrove die, and why was it such a loss for jazz?
Roy Hargrove died in 2018 at age 49. By then he had already bridged post-bop, Latin jazz, and neo-soul in a way few trumpeters of his generation managed.
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