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Roy Hargrove, photographed here in Paris in 2016, died Friday night at the age of 49.
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Roy Hargrove, photographed here in Paris in 2016, died Friday night at the age of 49.
Frédéric Ragot / Redferns
Roy Hargrove, an incisive trumpet player who has embodied the brightest promises of his jazz generation, both as a young steward of the bebop tradition and as an enlightened bridge between hip-hop and R & B, is died Friday night in New York. He was 49 years old.
The cause was a cardiac arrest, according to its longtime director, Larry Clothier. Hargrove had been admitted to the hospital for reasons related to kidney function; he had been on dialysis for many years.
Hargrove has been a two-time Grammy Award winner, in two illustrative categories: Best Instrumental Jazz Album in 2003 for Directions to music, featuring a super post-bop group with pianist Herbie Hancock and saxophonist Michael Brecker; and Best Latin Jazz Performance in 1998 for Habana, a revolutionary Afro-Cuban project recorded in Havana.
Hargrove was scheduled to perform Saturday in a jazz vespers service at Bethany Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey, as part of the TD James Moody Jazz Festival.
A complete obituary is forthcoming.
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