The Grammy-winning artist contributed to albums by Sonny Rollins, D’Angelo, Erykah Badu, Common & more.
Grammy award-winning jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove has passed away aged 49. Hargrove’s long-time manager Larry Clothier confirmed the news to NPR this weekend, adding that the cause of death was cardiac arrest and that Hargrove had been admitted to a New York City hospital earlier in the week with kidney issues.
Hargrove was a member of the famed Soulquarians Collective in the early 00’s, having worked extensively on D’Angelo’s Voodoo, Erykah Badu’s Mama’s Gun and Common’s Like Water For Chocolate, of which the sessions for all three LPs took place at New York’s Electric Lady Studios. Hargrove reunited with D’Angelo for his highly-anticipated third album Black Messiah which released in 2014.
Hargrove was a two time Grammy-winner, earning his first award in 1998’s best Latin jazz peformance category for the groundbreaking Afro-Cuban album Habana. He was then adorned with his second award in 2003’s best jazz instrumental category for Directions in Music, a collaborative post-bop record featuring Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker and Hargrove.
Words by Sam Wilkinson.
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