Roy Hargrove obituary

Gifted American trumpeter and flugelhornist who made it his mission to spread the jazz messageWhen the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis emerged as the champion of a return to traditional acoustic-jazz values in the 1980s, his single-minded charisma inspired talented disciples all over the world. One of the most gifted of them was the trumpeter and flugelhornist Roy Hargrove, who has died aged 49 after a cardiac arrest.Hargrove began his jazz career in the late 80s sounding as if he could have dropped n