Roy Hargrove

June 26 at Le Gesu

Roy Hargrove is a brilliant trumpeter, and he returns to the Festival after spellbinding performance with a big band in 2010. This time he’ll perform with his regular quintet at the intimate Gesu theatre on Bleury Street. At 44, trumpeter Roy Hargrove has firmly established himself as among the premier players in jazz and beyond. During his tenure on the Verve label alone, he has recorded an album with a hand-picked collection of the world’s greatest tenor saxophonists (With the Tenors of Our Time), an album of standards with strings (Moment to Moment) and, in 2003, introduced his own hip hop/jazz collective The RH Factor with the groundbreaking CD Hard Groove (swiftly followed by the limited edition EP, Strength). Hargrove has also won Grammy® Awards for two vastly different projects. Roy Hargrove is sure to please jazz fans who enjoy cool, melodic jazz. Tickets: 514-861-4036 or www.admission.ca