He acted as sideman for jazz pianist Shirley Horn, rapper Common, on the album Like Water for Chocolate in 2002, and the following year, singer Erykah Badu, Worldwide Underground. In 2002, he collaborated with D'Angelo and other hip hop and R&B artists, Macy Gray, The Soultronics, and Nile Rodgers, on two tracks for Red Hot & Riot, a compilation CD in tribute to the music of afropop pioneer, Fela Kuti. Hargrove moved toward a jazz sound with a lot of groove and funk in it, performing and recording with nu soul rapper/singer D'Angelo, resulting in Voodoo in 2000. In 1994, still with Verve, he took the opportunity to record with some of the major jazz musicians on With the Tenors of Our Time, including Joe Henderson, Stanley Turrentine, Johnny Griffin, Joshua Redman, and Branford Marsalis. Hargrove moved on, recording Family in 1995, and then, experimenting with other musicians, as part of a trio, the album Parker's Mood, in 1995 with bassist Christian McBride and Stephen Scott on keyboards. Hargrove won a Grammy Award in 1998 for the album Habana with the Afro-Cuban band he founded, 'Crisol'. In 1993 he was commissioned by the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, and wrote The Love Suite: In Mahogany. In 1990 he released his first solo album, Diamond in the Rough, on the Novus/RCA label, along with four other albums. Shortly afterwards he made a recording with Superblue featuring Watson, Mulgrew Miller, and Kenny Washington. Hargrove primarily played in the hard bop style for the majority of his albums, especially. He won worldwide notice after winning two Grammy Awards for differing types of music in 1997 and in 2002. His first recording there was with the saxophonist Bobby Watson. Roy Anthony Hargrove (Octo November 2, 2018) was an American jazz trumpeter. Hargrove spent one year (1988–1989) studying at Boston's Berklee College of Music, but could more often be found in New York City jam sessions, and finally transferred to the New School, in New York. One of his influences was saxophone player David 'Fathead' Newman, who performed in Ray Charles' Band at Hargrove's junior high school. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. Hargrove was born Octoin Waco, Texas, to parents who early in his childhood discovered his musical potential, and with lessons on the trumpet, was discovered as a potential jazz talent when trumpet player Wynton Marsalis visited his high school, Dallas's Booker T.

2010: with Angelique Kidjo: Samba Pa Ti on album Õÿö.

2008: with John Beasley: Letter to Herbie.

2003: with Erykah Badu: Worldwide Underground.

2000: with Common: Like Water for Chocolate.

1995: with Christian McBride: Gettin' To It.

2009: Emergence – The Roy Hargrove Big Band (Emarcy).

2008: Ear Food – The Roy Hargrove Quintet (Emarcy).

2006: Nothing Serious – The Roy Hargrove Quintet (Verve).

1995: Parker's Mood – with Christian McBride (bass), and Stephen Scott (piano) (Verve).

1994: Approaching Standards (Jive/Novus).

1994: With the Tenors of Our Time – The Roy Hargrove Quintet (Verve).

Video:Roy Hargrove Big Band - Live from the 'Jazz à Vienne' Festival As leader

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