Hartbreaker – Roy Hargrove

A snappy uptempo blues head with some rhythm section figures that answer the melody. It's named after alto saxophonist Antonio Hart.

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Recording: Roy Hargrove - Public Eye
Recorded on: October, 1990
Label: Novus (3113-2-N)
Concert Key: B-flat
Vocal Range: , to
Style: Swing (uptempo)

Trumpet - Roy Hargrove
Alto Sax - Antonio Hart
Piano - Stephen Scott
Bass - Christian McBride
Drums - Billy Higgins

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An uptempo blues head with a classic post-bop sound. The melody has some stop-and-go rhythms in the fifth and sixth measure, and again in the eleventh measure, which are answered by piano and bass figures; these give the song a real kick. On the in head, bassist Christian McBride plays a combination of 2-feel and 4-feel; the bass rhythms are notated below the staff. Bassists have the option of using either 2-feel or 4-feel throughout the head, as long as they catch the figures that answer the melody.

Antonio Hart first recorded with Roy Hargrove on Roy's debut album, "Diamond In The Rough"; this was Hart's first recording. "Public Eye" was the second of three Hargrove albums featuring Hart; the third was 1992's "The Vibe." In turn, Hargrove played on one song from Hart's first album as a leader, "For The First Time," in 1991. Other Hargrove/Hart collaborations include two all-star groups in 1991-92, The Jazz Futures and The Jazz Networks (the latter with a Japanese rhythm section); both recorded for the Novus label. Twenty years later, Roy and Antonio played together in the Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Stars big band.

Roy Hargrove

October 16, 1969 – November 2, 2018

Roy Hargrove was a pioneer in modern hard-bop jazz and is widely regarded as one of the best trumpeters to emerge from the 1990s. As a high school student in Waco, Texas, young Roy met Wynton Marsalis in 1987. Impressed with the young man's talent, Wynton encouraged Roy. In April, 1988, while still a teenager, Roy traveled to NYC and slept on the couch in Don Sickler's rehearsal studio in preparation for his recording debut in the big leagues with Don ("Superblue"). Before leaving New York on that trip he also recorded with alto saxophonist Bobby Watson ("No Question About It"). Read more...

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