Earfood – Roy Hargrove

Even if you don't recognize his name, you've heard his sound. Jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove played trumpet on, and contributed arrangements to, D'Angelo's Voodoo, Common's Like Water for Chocolate, and Erykah Badu's Mama's Gun. He was equally at home with neo-soul and hip-hop, and straight-ahead acoustic jazz. At the same time he was contributing to era-defining Soulquarian projects, he was producing music with his jazz quintet.

Today, jazz pianists Adam Maness and Peter Martin listen to his 2008 masterpiece Earfood and explore why it may be the perfect jazz album for the jazz-curious neo-soul fan.

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About You'll Hear It:

Jazz pianists Adam Maness and Peter Martin unpack popular albums track-by-track in this weekly listening party. They talk about what their trained ears hear in the music, offering audiences a new window into the records they love.

00:00 The hidden force behind neo-soul
02:04 Roy Hargrove’s early years
07:07 D’Angelo, Voodoo and the Soulquarians
9:25 The RH Factor and Roy’s quintet
15:08 I’m Not So Sure
23:10 Brown
27:24 Strasbourg / St. Denis
32:01 Starmaker
34:09 Joy Is Sorrow Unmasked
38:56 The Stinger
44:43 Rouge
49:06 Mr. Clean
51:37 Style
54:01 Divine
55:45 To Wisdom the Prize
57:11 Speak Low
1:00:26 Bring It On Home to Me
1:02:04 Adam and Peter’s favourite moments
1:08:47 The final verdict