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Roy Hargrove

Diablo Regional Arts Association has announced a third season for its
popular Jazz at the Lesher Center series, unveiling a line-up of stellar jazz
performers to be presented in concerts on Saturday nights this summer at the
Margaret Lesher Theatre, at the Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek. Concluding the four-concert series on Saturday, August 23, at 5pm and 8pm is multi-Grammy-winning
trumpeter Roy Hargrove.



Born in 1969 and discovered while still in high school in Waco, Texas
by Wynton Marsalis, this trumpet/flugelhorn player's incandescent talent
swiftly blazed across the jazz firmament. Voted Downbeat's Soloist of the Year in 1989, by age 25 he was an
established star, recording with the likes of Sonny Rollins, Johnny Griffin,
Stanley Turrentine, Joe Henderson, and Oscar Peterson. Roy Hargrove has
explored, and conquered, a wide variety of musical domains. Moving on from hard
bop, he formed a band featuring Cuban percussionists that toured with great
success; the resulting album “Habana” won Hargrove his first Grammy in
1998. His second Grammy was awarded in 2002 for Directions in Music,
recorded with Herbie Hancock and Michael Brecker. Other endeavors as leader
include the Roy Hargrove Big Band and the RH Factor, a group that blends jazz
with elements of funk, hip-hop, soul, and gospel. He is in high demand as
sideman, recording with such artists as Shirley Horn, Jimmy Smith, Ray Brown,
Roy Haynes and Jimmy Cobb. With a charming, relaxed stage manner that belies
his jawdropping mastery of various musical styles, Hargrove's solos can be
dazzling but he can also play a ballad, as Newsweek remarked, "with a sweetness that speaks of a
world of hurt."



Four-concert subscriptions, at either 5pm or 8pm, are now on sale for $125.
Any remaining tickets to single concerts will go on sale in June, for $40 each.
For subscriptions the public may visit www.LesherJazz.org or call
925.943.7469.

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