Another Level – Roy Hargrove

A bossa with colorful, unpredictable changes consisting mostly of minor chords. The form has two contrasting sections, one with a floating quality and the other more rhythmic. Second parts are available for the quintet arrangement.

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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