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Texas Native And Grammy-Winning Jazz Trumpet Virtuoso Roy Hargrove Dies At 49

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Roy Hargrove playing trumpet at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 2006.

Teachers, peers and even jazz great Wynton Marsalis noticed Hargrove’s talent when he was just a high schooler.