“Roy was always the trumpet great that I found myself being drawn to again and again,” said the 22-year-old Bahaman musician, who performed at a star-studded, five-hour musical blowout at Rose Theater on Jan. Rising star trumpeter Giveton Gelin is another young player who was inspired by Hargrove’s example. I learned a lot just being around him and watching how he operates.” “He was not a guy who would sit down and show you stuff, but the fact that I would have access to him, to hang out with him and do stuff, meant a lot to me. “He was definitely a mentor of mine,” Brown continued. So I got the horn and said, ‘Thanks so much.’ But I didn’t realize that that would be the end. I didn’t even know that he was sick like that. He was the guy that let me know that, ‘Hey, it’s OK to push and express yourself.’”īrown, who appeared on The RH Factor’s 2003 album Hard Groove, added, “I visited him two weeks before he passed away. As close friend and mentee Maurice “Mobetta” Brown, a trumpeter from the south suburbs of Chicago put it, “The first time I heard him play, it made so much sense to me because it showed me other possibilities outside of what I was hearing at the time. He was voted in by the readers of DownBeat in the 86th Annual Readers Poll.Ī transitional figure who profoundly influenced a generation of musicians, Hargrove bridged the worlds of hard bop, hip-hop, funk and neo-soul throughout his prolific career, serving as a role model for young trumpeters to find their own voices in his wake. 2, 2018, at age 49, trumpeter Roy Hargrove enters the DownBeat Hall of Fame. “For me, Roy Hargrove was one of the most dedicated stewards of this music, the Black American tradition,” said trumpeter Theo Croker, who considered Hargrove a mentor.

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