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All I Need | Def Jazz feat. Roy Hargrove and Joey DeFrancesco | Def Jazz (2005)

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fortunatoyjacinto:

En esta fresca tarde está a punto de llover, y yo estoy a un par de horas de probar un té quezque muy bueno de quién sabe qué rayos, propongo esta rola de don Roy Hargrove para ambientarla. ¡Saboooor!

Mambo for Roy (Valdés) | Roy Hargrove Big Band | Emergence (2009 Emarcy)

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Watermelon Man | Marcus Miller & Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters

Amazing, it’s the only live recording I found in which they play it with the Head Hunters (1973) period sound, previously posted, and the audience goes crazy!

Tokyo Jazz, 2005

  • Herbie Hancock keyboards
  • Marcus Miller bass, bass clarinet
  • Roy Hargrove trumpet
  • Lionel Louke guitar
  • Wah Wah Watson guitar
  • Terri Lyne Carrington drums
  • Munyungo Jackson percussion

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Nicholas Payton’s complete album Payton’s Place (1998), featuring guest musicians Wynton Marsalis, (trumpet on tracks 2, 10), Roy Hargrove (trumpet on tracks 2, 8) and saxophonist Joshua Redman (tenor sax on track 4).

Nicholas Payton caught my ear when I first heard Concentric Circles, track 5 in this album, from this post on tumblr.

  1. Zigaboogaloo (Payton)
  2. The Three Trumpeteers (Payton)
  3. Back to the Source (Payton)
  4. A Touch of Silver (Payton)
  5. Concentric Circles (Payton)
  6. Li’l Duke’s Strut (Payton)
  7. Time Travelling (Payton)
  8. With a Song in My Heart (Hart, Rogers)
  9. Paraphernalia (Shorter)
  10. Brownie à la Mode (Payton)
  11. People Make the World Go Round (Bell, Creed)
  12. The Last Goodbye (Bell, Creed, Payton)