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Roy Hargrove, Grammy award winning trumpeter, died at 49

Roy Hargrove, a keen trumpeter, who as a young steward, brilliantly bridged bebop tradition to hip-hop and R&B, died on Friday night in New York City.

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7 years ago

November 3, 2018

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Roy Hargrove, Grammy Award Winning Trumpeter, Dead at 49

Roy Hargrove (Photo: Ice Boy Tell, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roy_Hargrove_Quintet_(ZMF_2018)_IMGP7119.jpg)

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Roy Hargrove, a keen trumpeter, who as a young steward, brilliantly bridged bebop tradition to hip-hop and R&B, died on Friday night in New York City.

He was 49.

Roy Hargrove dead at 49

The cause was cardiac arrest, according to his longtime manager, Larry Clothier.

Hargrove had been admitted to the hospital for reasons related to kidney function; he had been on dialysis for many years, reports NPR.

Career

Hargrove was a two-time Grammy winner, in two illustrative categories: Best Jazz Instrumental Album in 2003 for Directions in Music, featuring a post-bop supergroup with pianist Herbie Hancock and saxophonist Michael Brecker; and Best Latin Jazz Performance in 1998 for Habana, a groundbreaking Afro-Cuban project recorded in Havana.

Hargrove had been scheduled to perform on Saturday in a jazz vespers service at Bethany Baptist Church in Newark, N.J., as part of the TD James Moody Jazz Festival.

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