Roy Hargrove News

After seeing bandleaders/drummers Roy Haynes and Dafnis Prieto live, listening to bandleader/trumpeter Roy Hargrove's new big-band CD, Emergence , and reading Amiri Baraka's new book, Digging , during the last few weeks, it's hard to believe the notion that jazz is dead.

A lot of hot trumpets in town on Friday , with the superb Roy Hargrove Quintet at Catalina's ; Scotty Barnhart at Charlie O's; and Jack Sheldon out at Caf 322 in Sierra Madre .

Celebrated trumpeter Roy Hargrove braved New York's Young Lions' music circuit on his way to becoming one of the most recognized names in contemporary jazz.

Director Douglas Chang and Executive Producer Ronald Tikofsky have announced the upcoming production of Chang's new feature, 'CHAOGRAPHY: Variations on the Theme of Freedom," in 2010.

A ntonio Hart , a fine, hard-swinging alto saxophonist, Friday night in Hartford ushers in November's richly varied musical fare served in some of the state's top venues.

Ellington, Basie, Gillespie a Hargrove? Jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove keeps the big band tradition alive with his new album, Emergence .

All About Jazz is celebrating Roy Hargrove's birthday today! Roy Hargrove Trumpeter Roy Hargrove has firmly established himself as one of this generation\'s premier players in jazz and beyond.

Trombonist Steve Davis is a natural choice for a new mainstream jazz label, as he is a veteran of many hard-bop bands as either a leader or a sideman, and is known for classy and thoughtful traditional jazz.

Roy Hargrove is no stranger to D.C., making frequent appearances at Georgetown's Blues Alley and playing a headline engagement during 2007's Duke Ellington Jazz Festival .

The legacy of Dizzy Gillespie 's pioneering bebop big band could not be served better than by the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band, the successor to the Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Star Big Band that featured Jon Faddis.

Outcaste Records present happening Asian musicians Asian Dub Foundation and Nitin Sawhney with Outcaste DJs playing in the foyer before and after the concert.

Emergence [Emarcy] 1 2 Count Basie Orchestra 1 2 Would you believe that the drearily old-fashioned and frequently listless one in this brace of new and vehemently tradition-al big band jazz records isn't the Basie ghost band but rather Roy Hargrove's 19-piece orchestra? The general rule, of course, is that all discs by "ghost bands" - aggregates ...

Today's edition of the Swiss newspaper Le Temps includes a profile of Roy Hargrove, in which the trumpeter proclaims: I'll save non-francophone readers the chore of Google-lating this.

As a trumpeter, composer, and an arranger, Roy Hargrove has been a mainstay of the contemporary music scene in a variety of formats for nearly two decades.

Saturday August 29, was the last day of the 3-day J&R MusicFest 2009 .A J&R Music World , the driving force behind the MusicFest, once again putA together a diverse group of artists to perform forA the public at City Hall Park for free.

Charlie Parker Jazz Festival brings Frank Wess Quintet , Gary Bartz Project and others to Marcus Garvey Park.

Larry Reni Thomas is a 30-year veteran writer/radio announcer based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, who has worked at seven radio stations and whose journalistic work has appeared in downbeat and The New York Times Magazine.

ROBERTA Gambarini is an Italian-born, America-based singer with an impressive CV: she credits the late Benny Carter with being her mentor, has worked with everyone from piano great Hank Jones to current trumpet star Roy Hargrove, and was a runner-up in the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocal Competition when she first moved to the ...

ROBERTA Gambarini is an Italian-born, America-based singer with an impressive CV: she credits the late Benny Carter with being her mentor, has worked with everyone from piano great Hank Jones to current trumpet star Roy Hargrove, and was a runner-up in the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocal Competition when she first moved to the ...

Roy Hargrove was still at high school when he was spotted by Wynton Marsalis, going on to release the first of 17 LPs as a band leader aged just 20, in 1989.