Roy Hargrove

Music | HIGH NOTES Sep 3, 2003

Roy Hargrove

by Michael Pronko

What's a nice, clean-cut hard-bopping trumpeter, one of the best to hit the jazz scene in the '90s, doing growing dreadlocks, wearing baggy pants and making a funk-soul CD? Roy Hargrove's latest release, "The RH Factor, Hard Groove," follows a string of excellent hard-bop ...

Abdul Tee-Jay and Palm Wine A-Go-Go

Music | HIGH NOTES Sep 3, 2003

Abdul Tee-Jay and Palm Wine A-Go-Go

by Tom Bojko

Sierra Leone might be most closely associated with blood diamonds and gruesome images of civil war, but it is also the home of palm wine music, a happy, bubbling style of guitar picking. Palm wine music, or maringa, as it's known inside the country, ...