Roy Hargrove – review

Union Chapel, LondonBoris Johnson and Sebastian Coe aren't known to be great cheerleaders for jazz, so their public support for London's current BluesFest is confirmation of the event's high profile. It also suggests, of course, that they're keen to get themselves a spot of reflected hipness in the run-up to the Olympics.Roy Hargrove, the 41 year-old Dallas‑born trumpeter, may not have the drawing power of such BluesFest celebs as BB King or Liza Minnelli, but he's never been short of hipness...

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