On the passing of Roy Hargrove

In the course of this ‘walkabout’ I’ve been fortunate to have met a myriad of people (and even a few ‘uman bein’s) among them was Jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove in the ’80s in Dallas. He’d just received the trumpet from ‘Doc’ Severinsen, former band leader of Johnny Carson’s ‘Tonight Show’ and I was a member of the ACT-SO panel awarding scholarships to high school students. It was obvious even then that he was an outstanding talent. Other than his playing one of things that still stands out in my mind from our brief interaction was that he wanted to be “‘just like Miles'”.

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