American trumpeter Roy Hargrove was born in Waco, Texas, on October 16, 1969,
and died in New York on November 2, 2018. He was one of the most acclaimed jazz
musicians in his field. Influenced by the hard bop movement, one of the "young
lions" of his generation, Hargrove's debut album Diamond in the Rough (1991) and
subsequent albums of covers and premieres were warmly received, and the Wynton
Marsalis protégé displayed an energetic yet sensitive style of playing that
enabled him to excel, whether in a traditional style on Moment to Moment (2000)
or Earfood (2008), in Cuban music...