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He was the student of jazz curator Wynton Marsalis – but Roy Hargrove of Dallas, Texas, was a self-confessed traditionalist in his field, but more original and versatile than Marsalis. He devoted himself to the care of Hardbop, he also (like his real model, Dizzy Gillespie) a flamboyant Cuban jazz, called to love: "Con Salsa!" Rhythms, but also in retrospect: The album "Hard Groove" (published under the name of RH Factor group) was in the tradition of P-Funk. New soul singers like D & # 39; Angelo and Erykah Badu enjoyed it and took it to the studio.
As a carrier of two Grammy, he often complained that the American jazz scene was less agile than the European scene. He never wanted to talk politics in his home country, he saw himself, he said, only forced to play music. Hargrove, who was suffering from kidney disease, died of a heart attack in New York at the age of 49. [ AFP](Tk)
("Die Presse", printed edition, 05.11.2018)
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