I'm at a manis.

And I'm Peter Martin. And you're listening to the You'll Hearer podcast.

Daily jazz advice coming at you.

Yeah. And no jazz advice today. Today we wanted to talk specifically about a tragic loss that was suffered by the entire

jazz community, the global jazz community, and that was the passing of Roy Hargrove on Saturday.

Peter, I know he was a friend of yours, and you played with him for a long time time and just wondering, you know, how you're feeling about everything.

Well, you know, it's, you know, Roy was such a force in this music.

I always knew that from when I first met him, when we were in high school, you know, back in Texas in 1985, I believe it was.

So he's been a force of the music since then, you know, and it's kind of amazing to say that

because, you know, he was a kid. I was a kid then, but he was truly something special.

And I had met, you know, a number of other special musicians, but there was truly something special about him.

And that kind of continued from the whole time that I knew him.

He's always been a leader of this music with his trumpet, with his compositions, with how he carried himself within the music.

And I think over these past few days,

what we've seen this outpouring of love and appreciation for him,

both from other musicians that were fortunate enough to be around him,

and really just the jazz community in general,

and the listeners, it's all kind of the same feeling.

And I think and reflect on just how know, just how fortunate I was to

kind of be around his glow just a little bit. But I think for all of us, it's the same. If you play

with him, if you listen to him, I mean, he was truth coming out of his trumpet, like his, who Roy was,

that came through in his music and how he carried himself within this music and he really was

...