Roy Hargrove
Trumpet Solo on
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Roy Hargrove's trumpet solo is the opening of 5 solos on this recording, followed by Antonio Hart on alto sax. Spanning six choruses of the 12-bar Blues form at a bright 241 BPM with a swing feel in C, the solo runs approximately 1:13. Hargrove's original composition is a minor blues in C taken at a blazing up-tempo pace, its hard-swinging character reflecting the neo-bop aesthetic that defined the young lions movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Roy Hargrove was 20 to 21 years old at the time of this 1990 recording.

Roy Hargrove was 20 to 21 years old at the time.