Roy Hargrove

The late Roy Hargrove has always been all about music, and this website is dedicated to moving his music forward and reaching succeeding generations of fans and jazz musicians.  This website and the Hargrove Estate are managed by Roy Hargrove Legacy LLC, a company founded by his wife, Aida Brandes-Hargrove, and daughter, Kamala Hargrove, to extend his legacy and celebrate his contributions to jazz and beyond. 

About Roy Hargrove:  Roy Hargrove, a two-time Grammy winner who topped the 2019 DownBeat Readers’ Poll for his instrument, is widely acclaimed as one of the premier trumpet players of his generation.  He was a musician of wide tastes with a special gift for composition and melody. While always keeping one foot firmly planted in jazz, Hargrove’s career was one of exciting genre-crossing exploration, including collaborations with Branford Marsalis, Christian McBride, Chucho Valdes, D’Angelo, Erykah Badu, Common and many others. He toured worldwide throughout his 30-year career with the Roy Hargrove Quintet, the Roy Hargrove Big Band, Roy Hargrove’s Crisol, and his soul/jazz group, the RH Factor, until his death in 2018 at age 49.