![]() ![]() The quintet is a war machine in the thrilling tradition of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. The artist that David “Fathead” Newman (Ray Charles’ famous tenor) always cites as an example is today going back to the basics, with a flamboyant post-hard-bop quintet featuring the saxophone of the young and brilliant Justin Robinson. While producing great work alongside Herbie Hancock, Sonny Rollins and Diana Krall, the Texan (he was born in Waco in 1969) became an artist in his own right, producing some 20 sound manifestoes in a quintet or with his RH Factor, zigzagging from orthodox and inventive jazz to funk or the hottest Afrobeat. He has proved to be one of the most talented and one of the most unpredictable of the group. Roy Hargrove is a legendary trumpet player from the second wave of “neo-boppers” to emerge in the late 1980s, in the wake of Wynton Marsalis (who discovered him when he was still at university).
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