Roy Hargrove
Trumpet Solo on
Hartbreaker

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Roy Hargrove's trumpet solo is the opening of 4 solos on this recording, followed by Christian McBride on acoustic bass. Spanning six choruses of the 12-bar Blues form at a bright 273 BPM with a swing feel in B♭, the solo runs approximately 1:03. Hargrove opens with six authoritative trumpet choruses, his lines crackling with rhythmic energy and blues feeling. Roy Hargrove was 20 to 21 years old at the time of this 1990 recording. Hartbreaker is an uptempo blues head composed by Roy Hargrove, first recorded in October 1990 for his second album Public Eye, released on Novus Records in 1991.

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