Roy Hargrove was one of the most unique artists i ever knew. His infinite ability for create and share his beautiful soul thru music is remarkable. The more i know from him, the more admire his legacy, Viva R. Hargrove!!
“Security!!!” Haha man Roy was the man. I met him once when I was 18. Real cool and down to earth brother! I know the advice he gave me was to play as much as I can for free. Not saying not to get paid, but the more free stuff you do the more you’ll get at the end of the day. Real cool cat man...Rest in paradise brother.
The thing about doing a free concert outside is that you may get the occasional drunken or insane idiot who attempts to louse up the proceedings. Roy hollered for security right in the middle of his intro but never lost a beat. I'm even more impressed with him now because of it.
NYT obit had a great line - Roy gave ballad melodies the spa treatment on flugelhorn. This is a classic gig. The playing and the unexpected and wonderfully jazzy singing is priceless.
Sarah Vaughan shared her melodic dialogue of expressive detail with flattery and an implied stimulation of romantic love between two; she hit the number one chart with the nearness of you, and with This sweet and melodic arrangement with Hargrove ever so careful a deliberate, on point delivery, adorned with an assortment of creative and show-case nuggets of sparkling notes; we find a new birth of differentiated twist and turns, around and over the top; building up to a nice crescendo, before nostalgically settling back down to the original sound, O yes; and the scenery depictions were an added attraction of good taste complimenting the tranquil profound arrangement. All of this helped transport us to this place with Roy Hargrove at the helm, and it was simply beautiful.
Excellent arrangement of this classic. Plus, mention should be made of the stellar solos turned in by Roy, Fathead, and Ron Blake. I really loved Blake's solo with the music changing to a 3/4. Great stuff.
King Curtis - with a sweet orchestral combo - has done wonderfully well with this tune: smooth, lyrical expressive, and with "adult" Soulfulness. While Roy's take brings to mind the virtuosic artistry of Clifford Brown, Woody Shaw, Lee Morgan and, yes, Howard McGhee, King Curtis has come off like one of the old, organic-real-jazz pros with a fairly modern approach to ballads. Dave Newman is his sweet melodic and lyrical self - scholarly and disciplined. (RIP)
This arrangement of the H. Carmichael and Ned Washingtion's standard speaks to dynamic complexities of the African-American experience. Art in many forms can express the vast intricate layers of a people's history and culture, yet for the Black experience in America no other form of expression has acknowledged the intricate details of the thoughts, feels, intellect, love, anger, and discipline at such a high level as Black American Music (JAZZ). The tune starts in the traditional Hargrove manner, and not two bars into the tune a disruption occurs, and Roy simply ask for security and continues his thought. The necessity to move beyond the distractions and challenges is one of the strengths of humanity, but it seems as if black folks have mastered this concept with hundreds of years of practices. Roy communicates to the audience the story that is going to be told as if narrating the introduction to a novel. Roy brings the listener into the first chapter of the book by introducing the melody of the tune. Roy's ability to not only play the melody of a standard tune that most listeners are familiar with, but to play it and express his thoughts of the music is amazing. Roy's phrasing and rich tone combined with the soulful knowledge of music emanates at the start of the tune. Fathead Newman takes you back to the Blues and Soul as he plays. The solo's Roy an Newman are rich with the historical tapestry of the black experience. Both musicians express themselves in the most ancient dialect of Black American Music: Blues, yet the centuries of change in Black America is present in their sounds. Ron Blake takes the tune to another level showing the intellectualism of the Bop Era and playing with the intensity and elegance of a Malcolm X speech addressing the issues of the oppression of black folks. The song draws to an end and is quickly cut off leading me to wonder how the song ended? Did Roy play a beautiful cadenza at the end? Did Newman take us to the alter like on a Sunday morning? Like this tune, we don't know how it will end, but we do know what has came before us. Thank you musicians for having the courage to practice, learn, and commit themselves to the music and expressing the experience of a people through song .
Mr. Hargrove is to be given much, much more credit for his hard work - along with Mr. Wynton Marsalis - in keeping jazz music alive to-date. A great musician of outstanding musical sensitivity. His passing is a great loss. I'm wondering now, whether there will be any successors of his caliber showing up soon? I'm not seeing any stepping up to take the lead right now. Where are they? We are out looking and listening.
You mustn't be looking very far Sam, there's so much stuff coming out of LA, London and Paris and beyond... the last few years. Kamasi Washington probably the biggest name along with his Brainfeeder label buddies like Thundercat are blazing the trail. In London you've Shabaka Hutchings' various projects, Nubya Garcia, Joe Armon-Jones, Moses Boyd... check out the Gilles Peterson-backed showcase LP We Out Here for an introduction to the new British jazz heads - because of their own personal heritage they're influenced by Heavenly Sweetness label in Paris are producing (and reviving) amazing artists. Special mention to EABS out of Poland, amazing stuff. Toshio Matsuura in Japan, Kyoto Jazz Sextet too. Not quite in the golden era of yesteryear but jazz is back in a big way.
@@themucaro I respect your opinion Kamasi Washington is great and so is everyone else on that list However the answer is jo there will never be another player like Roy but that’s okay There will never be another Clifford brown we have looking for his reincarnation unfortunately these guys are just that special Roy Hargrove is unchallenged the smoothest trumpeter to ever live And I love Miles bro don’t get wrong however roy tone is god given and he worked on it as well We certainly would not have Roy without miles and other guys like Chet , Freddie Unchallenged champion But yeah I wish you the best brotha god bless
@@themucaro Maurice brown , keyon Harold , Ambrose , Christian Scott ,marquis hill. We got some great guys out today certainly but ask any one of those guys who the smoothest and coldest trumpeter was Roy Hargrove has to be mentioned
I know EXACTLY how you feel. The jazz world lost a great ambassador when it lost Roy. People have replied to your comment by mentioning that there are other great jazz musicians still around. They are absolutely right in their assessments. But no one has stepped forward to claim the unofficial mantle of "Jazz Advocate" the way Marsalis and Hargrove did it. Hargrove, in particular, did it by his tireless jamming all over the world. His sense of style and his insistence on playing standards is what the jazz world will and has missed since his untimely passing. So, I understand the spirit of your comment. And, like you, I, too, am waiting to see who the next leader will be.
I can't see the bari player, but the sax section seems to be Vincent Herring and Ron Blake on tenors and Jesse Davis and Sherman Irby on altos....that's a 90's dream section.
Roy Hargrove was one of the most unique artists i ever knew. His infinite ability for create and share his beautiful soul thru music is remarkable. The more i know from him, the more admire his legacy, Viva R. Hargrove!!
He played jazz
“Security!!!” Haha man Roy was the man. I met him once when I was 18. Real cool and down to earth brother! I know the advice he gave me was to play as much as I can for free. Not saying not to get paid, but the more free stuff you do the more you’ll get at the end of the day. Real cool cat man...Rest in paradise brother.
Bless you, sir. Lovely comment and beautiful story.
Mike! That’s some advice only someone like Roy can provide!
The thing about doing a free concert outside is that you may get the occasional drunken or insane idiot who attempts to louse up the proceedings. Roy hollered for security right in the middle of his intro but never lost a beat. I'm even more impressed with him now because of it.
Roy was born to ballad.
Yes, he was!!!
😢❤
NYT obit had a great line - Roy gave ballad melodies the spa treatment on flugelhorn. This is a classic gig. The playing and the unexpected and wonderfully jazzy singing is priceless.
I simply love this version of the Nearness of You. I think this song is best when it’s all instrumental.
Sarah Vaughan shared her melodic dialogue of expressive detail with flattery and an implied stimulation of romantic love between two; she hit the number one chart with the nearness of you, and with This sweet and melodic arrangement with Hargrove ever so careful a deliberate, on point delivery, adorned with an assortment of creative and show-case nuggets of sparkling notes; we find a new birth of differentiated twist and turns, around and over the top; building up to a nice crescendo, before nostalgically settling back down to the original sound, O yes; and the scenery depictions were an added attraction of good taste complimenting the tranquil profound arrangement. All of this helped transport us to this place with Roy Hargrove at the helm, and it was simply beautiful.
+Gentris Moore ... wow..nice comments. I enjoy people who enjoy music like I do.
Gentris Moore:
Could not have said it better! On point, my friend.
Roy, thank you much; for, you have put scholarly discipline into your lyrical smoothness of delivery.
I LOVE ROY's version!!!!!!
Excellent arrangement of this classic. Plus, mention should be made of the stellar solos turned in by Roy, Fathead, and Ron Blake. I really loved Blake's solo with the music changing to a 3/4. Great stuff.
If you ever get your the opportunity, listen to "Roy Hargrove and the Tenors of Our Time," Amazing project!
8:20 ... the Twin Towers. Nice memorial: brilliant playing all around.
Great solos throughout. Excellent arrangement.
You betcha !! And I'm talkin' really great stuff they are performing with this fabulous Carmichael ballad
A masterpiece ✊🏽💙💙💙
A big lost for the great music ,RIP Roy !
King Curtis - with a sweet orchestral combo - has done wonderfully well with this tune: smooth, lyrical expressive, and with "adult" Soulfulness.
While Roy's take brings to mind the virtuosic artistry of Clifford Brown, Woody Shaw, Lee Morgan and, yes, Howard McGhee, King Curtis has come off like one of the old, organic-real-jazz pros with a fairly modern approach to ballads.
Dave Newman is his sweet melodic and lyrical self - scholarly and disciplined. (RIP)
What a legendddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
Thank you for posting this great live version! Roy Hargrove and Ron Blake both are melody monsters!!
Go well Roy. Much loved and missed.
wow pure magic
Fantastico!
Looks like a young Ron Blake, killin it on tenor sax
Rest Easy Brother
I can almost feel her now!! Thanks Roy.... Chris Botti is great, but to me Roy Hargrove was
the best..
trumpet magnific....!
RIP
This arrangement of the H. Carmichael and Ned Washingtion's standard speaks to dynamic complexities of the African-American experience. Art in many forms can express the vast intricate layers of a people's history and culture, yet for the Black experience in America no other form of expression has acknowledged the intricate details of the thoughts, feels, intellect, love, anger, and discipline at such a high level as Black American Music (JAZZ). The tune starts in the traditional Hargrove manner, and not two bars into the tune a disruption occurs, and Roy simply ask for security and continues his thought. The necessity to move beyond the distractions and challenges is one of the strengths of humanity, but it seems as if black folks have mastered this concept with hundreds of years of practices. Roy communicates to the audience the story that is going to be told as if narrating the introduction to a novel. Roy brings the listener into the first chapter of the book by introducing the melody of the tune. Roy's ability to not only play the melody of a standard tune that most listeners are familiar with, but to play it and express his thoughts of the music is amazing. Roy's phrasing and rich tone combined with the soulful knowledge of music emanates at the start of the tune. Fathead Newman takes you back to the Blues and Soul as he plays. The solo's Roy an Newman are rich with the historical tapestry of the black experience. Both musicians express themselves in the most ancient dialect of Black American Music: Blues, yet the centuries of change in Black America is present in their sounds. Ron Blake takes the tune to another level showing the intellectualism of the Bop Era and playing with the intensity and elegance of a Malcolm X speech addressing the issues of the oppression of black folks. The song draws to an end and is quickly cut off leading me to wonder how the song ended? Did Roy play a beautiful cadenza at the end? Did Newman take us to the alter like on a Sunday morning? Like this tune, we don't know how it will end, but we do know what has came before us. Thank you musicians for having the courage to practice, learn, and commit themselves to the music and expressing the experience of a people through song
.
Mr. Hargrove is to be given much, much more credit for his hard work - along with Mr. Wynton Marsalis - in keeping jazz music alive to-date. A great musician of outstanding musical sensitivity. His passing is a great loss. I'm wondering now, whether there will be any successors of his caliber showing up soon? I'm not seeing any stepping up to take the lead right now. Where are they? We are out looking and listening.
You mustn't be looking very far Sam, there's so much stuff coming out of LA, London and Paris and beyond... the last few years.
Kamasi Washington probably the biggest name along with his Brainfeeder label buddies like Thundercat are blazing the trail. In London you've Shabaka Hutchings' various projects, Nubya Garcia, Joe Armon-Jones, Moses Boyd... check out the Gilles Peterson-backed showcase LP We Out Here for an introduction to the new British jazz heads - because of their own personal heritage they're influenced by Heavenly Sweetness label in Paris are producing (and reviving) amazing artists.
Special mention to EABS out of Poland, amazing stuff. Toshio Matsuura in Japan, Kyoto Jazz Sextet too.
Not quite in the golden era of yesteryear but jazz is back in a big way.
@@themucaro I respect your opinion Kamasi Washington is great and so is everyone else on that list
However the answer is jo there will never be another player like Roy but that’s okay
There will never be another Clifford brown we have looking for his reincarnation unfortunately these guys are just that special
Roy Hargrove is unchallenged the smoothest trumpeter to ever live
And I love Miles bro don’t get wrong however roy tone is god given and he worked on it as well
We certainly would not have Roy without miles and other guys like Chet , Freddie
Unchallenged champion
But yeah I wish you the best brotha god bless
@@themucaro Maurice brown , keyon Harold , Ambrose , Christian Scott ,marquis hill. We got some great guys out today certainly but ask any one of those guys who the smoothest and coldest trumpeter was Roy Hargrove has to be mentioned
I know EXACTLY how you feel. The jazz world lost a great ambassador when it lost Roy. People have replied to your comment by mentioning that there are other great jazz musicians still around. They are absolutely right in their assessments. But no one has stepped forward to claim the unofficial mantle of "Jazz Advocate" the way Marsalis and Hargrove did it. Hargrove, in particular, did it by his tireless jamming all over the world. His sense of style and his insistence on playing standards is what the jazz world will and has missed since his untimely passing. So, I understand the spirit of your comment. And, like you, I, too, am waiting to see who the next leader will be.
that's hilarious - "security" but didn't miss a beat!!!!!
Love this concert. I think Karriem Riggins on the drums??
Is that Vincent Herring on tenor? The tenor player not soloing.
I remember this day in the Village. Pevin Everett on trumpet where is that cat these days
Lester Carnegie Do you remember what year this was?
Beautiful rendition inspired by Sarah Vaughan
Thank you for posting, beautiful. Where is this?
David "fathead" Newman on tenor!
He was bad as in very good!
95
Why did he say Security? Please tell me
Is that Chico Freeman in the front row?
I can't see the bari player, but the sax section seems to be Vincent Herring and Ron Blake on tenors and Jesse Davis and Sherman Irby on altos....that's a 90's dream section.
94 ? 95 ?
Is that Sonny Rollins on sax
Dude is bad on the tenor Sax