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In a 2017 piece for NPR, All Things Considered jazz critic Michelle Mercer wrote an insightful and unforgiving look at how women are both perceived and treated in the genre's community. “I've heard variations on the ‘women can't really follow jazz’ theme ever since I first started hitting jazz clubs and loving extremely long solos," she wrote.
Trumpeter Roy Hargrove died early this month of cardiac arrest at 49. He had been admitted to the hospital for a longstanding kidney problem. Hargrove came out of Texas in the late 1980s, releasing his first album, Diamond In The Rough, in 1990. He was quickly embraced by jazz elders for his stunning skills on the horn; he played on two tracks on Sonny Rollins’ 1991 album Here’s To The People.
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