“Security!!!” Haha man Roy was the man. I met him once when I was 18. Real cool and down to earth brother! I know the advice he gave me was to play as much as I can for free. Not saying not to get paid, but the more free stuff you do the more you’ll get at the end of the day. Real cool cat man...Rest in paradise brother.

Roy Hargrove was one of the most unique artists i ever knew. His infinite ability for create and share his beautiful soul thru music is remarkable. The more i know from him, the more admire his legacy, Viva R. Hargrove!!

Roy was born to ballad.

The thing about doing a free concert outside is that you may get the occasional drunken or insane idiot who attempts to louse up the proceedings. Roy hollered for security right in the middle of his intro but never lost a beat. I'm even more impressed with him now because of it.

NYT obit had a great line - Roy gave ballad melodies the spa treatment on flugelhorn. This is a classic gig. The playing and the unexpected and wonderfully jazzy singing is priceless.

Excellent arrangement of this classic. Plus, mention should be made of the stellar solos turned in by Roy, Fathead, and Ron Blake. I really loved Blake's solo with the music changing to a 3/4. Great stuff.

Sarah Vaughan shared her melodic dialogue of expressive detail with flattery and an implied stimulation of romantic love between two; she hit the number one chart with the nearness of you, and with This sweet and melodic arrangement with Hargrove ever so careful a deliberate, on point delivery, adorned with an assortment of creative and show-case nuggets of sparkling notes; we find a new birth of differentiated twist and turns, around and over the top; building up to a nice crescendo, before nostalgically settling back down to the original sound, O yes; and the scenery depictions were an added attraction of good taste complimenting the tranquil profound arrangement. All of this helped transport us to this place with Roy Hargrove at the helm, and it was simply beautiful.

I simply love this version of the Nearness of You. I think this song is best when it’s all instrumental.

Roy, thank you much; for, you have put scholarly discipline into your lyrical smoothness of delivery.

I LOVE ROY's version!!!!!!

8:20 ... the Twin Towers. Nice memorial: brilliant playing all around.

If you ever get your the opportunity, listen to "Roy Hargrove and the Tenors of Our Time," Amazing project!

Great solos throughout. Excellent arrangement.

King Curtis - with a sweet orchestral combo - has done wonderfully well with this tune: smooth, lyrical expressive, and with "adult" Soulfulness. While Roy's take brings to mind the virtuosic artistry of Clifford Brown, Woody Shaw, Lee Morgan and, yes, Howard McGhee, King Curtis has come off like one of the old, organic-real-jazz pros with a fairly modern approach to ballads. Dave Newman is his sweet melodic and lyrical self - scholarly and disciplined. (RIP)

Thank you for posting this great live version! Roy Hargrove and Ron Blake both are melody monsters!!

A masterpiece ✊🏽💙💙💙

A big lost for the great music ,RIP Roy !

Go well Roy. Much loved and missed.

What a legendddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd

Fantastico!

Looks like a young Ron Blake, killin it on tenor sax

wow pure magic

Rest Easy Brother

I can almost feel her now!! Thanks Roy.... Chris Botti is great, but to me Roy Hargrove was the best..

RIP

Mr. Hargrove is to be given much, much more credit for his hard work - along with Mr. Wynton Marsalis - in keeping jazz music alive to-date. A great musician of outstanding musical sensitivity. His passing is a great loss. I'm wondering now, whether there will be any successors of his caliber showing up soon? I'm not seeing any stepping up to take the lead right now. Where are they? We are out looking and listening.

trumpet magnific....!

that's hilarious - "security" but didn't miss a beat!!!!!

This arrangement of the H. Carmichael and Ned Washingtion's standard speaks to dynamic complexities of the African-American experience. Art in many forms can express the vast intricate layers of a people's history and culture, yet for the Black experience in America no other form of expression has acknowledged the intricate details of the thoughts, feels, intellect, love, anger, and discipline at such a high level as Black American Music (JAZZ). The tune starts in the traditional Hargrove manner, and not two bars into the tune a disruption occurs, and Roy simply ask for security and continues his thought. The necessity to move beyond the distractions and challenges is one of the strengths of humanity, but it seems as if black folks have mastered this concept with hundreds of years of practices. Roy communicates to the audience the story that is going to be told as if narrating the introduction to a novel. Roy brings the listener into the first chapter of the book by introducing the melody of the tune. Roy's ability to not only play the melody of a standard tune that most listeners are familiar with, but to play it and express his thoughts of the music is amazing. Roy's phrasing and rich tone combined with the soulful knowledge of music emanates at the start of the tune. Fathead Newman takes you back to the Blues and Soul as he plays. The solo's Roy an Newman are rich with the historical tapestry of the black experience. Both musicians express themselves in the most ancient dialect of Black American Music: Blues, yet the centuries of change in Black America is present in their sounds. Ron Blake takes the tune to another level showing the intellectualism of the Bop Era and playing with the intensity and elegance of a Malcolm X speech addressing the issues of the oppression of black folks. The song draws to an end and is quickly cut off leading me to wonder how the song ended? Did Roy play a beautiful cadenza at the end? Did Newman take us to the alter like on a Sunday morning? Like this tune, we don't know how it will end, but we do know what has came before us. Thank you musicians for having the courage to practice, learn, and commit themselves to the music and expressing the experience of a people through song .

Love this concert. I think Karriem Riggins on the drums??

Beautiful rendition inspired by Sarah Vaughan

Is that Vincent Herring on tenor? The tenor player not soloing.

David "fathead" Newman on tenor!

I remember this day in the Village. Pevin Everett on trumpet where is that cat these days

Thank you for posting, beautiful. Where is this?

95

Why did he say Security? Please tell me

Is that Chico Freeman in the front row?

94 ? 95 ?

Is that Sonny Rollins on sax

Dude is bad on the tenor Sax