Remembering Roy Hargrove, Who Brought Jazz History Into Tomorrow

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 9 November 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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The trumpeter, who died at 49, was a singular figure dedicated to keeping jazz’s past in dialogue with its future. Guests: The New York Times's Giovanni Russonello; Jozen Cummings.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times
0:05.4	podcast. You are rolling with the soul aquariums of music news and
0:08.4	criticism. I'm your host John Caramonica. The And the This has been a tough week, but a couple days ago, we lost Roy Hargrove.
1:05.8	Roy Hargrove, a very important horn player, died at 49, cardiac arrest following many, many years of struggling with his kidneys and what you were
1:16.0	listening to when we came in was Strasborg Sanzanine which is from his ear food album
1:22.0	Roy Hargrove dedicated popcast listeners know my my sense of
1:26.7	jazz is sometimes circumscribed but Roy Hargrove satisfied really traditionalists and also people who thought a little bit more broadly
1:36.1	about how jazz should be in dialogue with other genres and certainly across generations.
1:41.8	And so today we're going to dedicate this episode to Roy and his work and to the
1:48.1	connections that he made to other players and rappers and singers with me.'s Gia Rousinello calling it from California. Hey man
1:56.7	Hey how's it going good. G.O covers jazz for for the times and wrote Roy's obituary for us.
2:03.3	And sitting across from me in the studio,
2:04.7	it's Jo-Zane Cummings, hey man.
2:06.0	What's going on, Jean?
2:07.3	Jo-ZAN works a bleacher report.
2:08.8	I know Jo-ZAN from many, many years ago,
2:11.0	from The Vibe days.
2:12.4	Jo-ZAN also wrote a very lovely thread
2:15.5	about Roy's influence that really got me thinking,
2:18.3	actually the reason why I wanted to do this popcast
2:20.5	was reading what she wrote and really pulling those threads together.
2:24.0	So I'm really happy you could be here.
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