In 2000, Hargrove contributed horn arrangements to Erykah Badu’s Mama’s Gun, D’Angelo’s Voodoo, and Common’s Like Water For Chocolate, linking the jazz world to R&B and hip-hop. He studied at the at Berklee College Of Music in Boston for a year before moving to New York City in the early ’90s, where he began playing alongside Sonny Rollins, Jimmy Smith, Branford Marsalis, Oscar Peterson, and more. Hargrove grew up in Texas and was discovered at a young age when jazz heavyweight Wynton Marsalis visited his high school in Dallas. According to his longtime manager, Hargrove went into cardiac arrest after being admitted to a New York City hospital last night for kidney function-related issues he had been on dialysis for many years. Jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove has died, NPR reports.
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