Roy Hargrove trumpet player, in collaboration with numerous big names such as D'angelo, Eryka Badu, Meshell N'degeocello, Anthony Hamilton, Common, Q-tip, and exellent band session members..Marc Cary, Steve Coleman, Gene Lake; James Poyser, Pino Palladino, Bernard Wright; Karl Denson..
mixes jazz funk soul in a contemporary way.
For me I especially love the song "Juicy". Very sensual..with the vocals by Ms. Renee Neufville.
I saw RH Factor live last year in Paradiso, Amsterdam.. the band was amazing.
True quality music, so good that even if you don't really appriciate that type of genre, they were so good that you get pursuaded into their grove immidiately. The crowd totally lost themselves in the music and the band got three encores... it could've even went longer
Here is a link for his live gig in the Netherlands- RH Factor in North Sea Jazz Festival
For more info about RH Factor, Roy Hargrove home page
Their new albumn is out "Strength [EP]" (2004)
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above was a past post from another blog.
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Actually saw them live yet again in 2006 North Sea Jazz, was great but was stuck in between extremely large dutch men... couldn't see anything.
Whichever the case, he makes greeeeaat music.(but must admit the band members were better in the show in Paradiso than in the North Sea Jazz.
He/they had their second album out called "Distractions"
released in May 2006. Also a funk/soul/jazz mixture, but in my opinion jazzier than the first album. Renee Neufville also sings throughout the album- Crazy Race, On the one, Hold on.
D'angelo also collaborated with the group on this album and wrote/sang the song "Bull shit".
Here's a little something I wrote on their site on their music.
Like a good wine
Insatiable 12/14/2006
Roy Hargrove,RH Factor's music is like real good wine. Its full strong and rich. Once you've tried this stuff, you cannot go back to, or even stand the shallow, musically substandard stuff any longer. And may I add, they are one of the few bands where its actually better live!
What I meant was its like when you drink wine, although you think you really can't tell the difference, after you have tried the vintage wine with the full taste and rich aromas, you realized how poor, bland the cheap wines are. Similarly once you tried the sounds of proper and extremely talented band sessions playing their hearts out to good rich music, you won't notice at first but later on you can't/won't be able to listen to the sounds of songs where all instruments were literally squeezed out by synthesizers or by poor standards- which is what a lot of commercialized music is like. As wine tasters develop their pallet of their tongue by years of training through tasting different wine, good music develops your pallet of your ears.
