Roy Hargrove

Habana

Roy Hargrove · 1997

Earfood

Roy Hargrove · 2008

Roy HargroveRoy Hargroveロイ・ハーグローブ played horns on D'Angelo's Voodoo (2000), reaching listeners far outside jazz. That experience directly inspired the RH Factor, linking hard bop to hip-hop and funk in a single grammar. His conversations with Chucho Valdés in Havana were another axis. He died in 2018 at 49.

— Voodoo, D'Angelo, 2000

Directions in Music

Herbie Hancock · 2002

Gettin' to It

Christian McBride · 1995

Parker's Mood

Christian McBride · 1995

Habana

Roy Hargrove · 1997

Roy Hargrove made his name in the early-1990s hard-bop revival as one of jazz's 'Young Lions,' with no real background in Latin music. Yet in 1997 it was Habana, a session with Cuban musicians, that won him a Grammy for Best Latin Jazz Performance.

Directions in Music

Herbie Hancock · 2002

Directions in Music (2001) was Hancock's tribute to Miles Davis and John Coltrane. Placing HargroveRoy Hargroveロイ・ハーグローブ — from the trumpet lineage — alongside Brecker, who had redefined the post-bop saxophone sound, was deliberate. Intergenerational transmission was the album's real subject.

Voodoo

D'Angelo · 2000

Pino PalladinoPino Palladinoピノ・パラディーノ met D'Angelo in the late 1990s at Electric Lady Studios during a B.B. King session. D'Angelo recruited him on the spot for VoodooVoodooD'Angelo · 2000 (2000). A Welsh session bassist ended up anchoring a neo-soul landmark — and it became the turning point toward his later work with the John Mayer Trio and The Who.

— Voodoo (D'Angelo album), Wikipedia, 2024

Saxophone Colossus

Sonny Rollins · 1956

Way Out West

Sonny Rollins · 1957

Sonny Rollins & Co. 1964

Sonny Rollins & Co. · 1994

Here's To The People

Sonny Rollins · 1991

The Way Out West session (1957) began at 3 a.m., because that was the only hour all three players were free — Rollins had night gigs and Shelly Manne had daytime studio work. A scheduling accident that ran until dawn is what survives as the standard pianoless-trio date.

Net Man

Charnett Moffett · 1987

Decoy

Miles Davis · 1984

Amandla

Miles Davis · 1989

I Remember Miles

Shirley Horn · 1998

Charnett Moffett's 1987 debut Net Man, recorded at age 20, turned out to be a family affair — his father Charles Moffett and brother Cody Moffett both played on it — with veteran drummer Al Foster also sitting in.