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New Year's Eve Celebration at the Jazz Showcase with Roy Hargrove Quintet at Jazz Showcase

Courtesy of Kwan Segal | Posted on November 29, 2014

Where

Jazz Showcase
Dearborn Station
Chicago, IL
Map
(312) 360-0234

When

Wed, December 31, 2014
8:00 pm

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Musicians

Roy Hargrove
trumpet
Ameen Saleem
bass, acoustic
Justin Robinson
saxophone, alto

About

“The Music world would be hard pressed to find another ambassador capable of traversing the worlds of straight ahead swingin’ and the funky underground better than Roy Hargrove.” – All About Jazz

As a trumpeter, composer, and an arranger, Roy Hargrove has been a mainstay of the contemporary music scene in a variety of formats for nearly two decades. Since his own emergence in the late ’80s, Hargrove has proved to be an adventurous and wide-ranging artist, proudly immersed in the jazz tradition and yet continually striking out for new terrain. Among his groups include the straight-ahead, hard-bop Roy Hargrove Quintet and Crisol, an Afro-Cuban ensemble. 2009 saw the release of Emergence, his first big band album. Nineteen pieces strong Emergence offers furious swing, majestic ballads and rollicking Latin jams....

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