Roy Hargrove
Trumpet Solo on
End of a Love Affair

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Roy Hargrove's trumpet solo is the opening of 2 solos on this recording, before Stephen Scott's closing piano statement. Spanning one chorus of the 40-bar AABAC form at a ballad tempo of 62 BPM in F, the solo runs approximately 2:37. Ballad performances of this quality on a debut album are rare, and this one signaled that Hargrove possessed not just the technical gifts of a virtuoso but the emotional intelligence of a true artist, capable of communicating complex feelings through his horn. 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.