The Jazz Gallery: Roy Hargrove Big Band Monthly Residency

1158 Broadway, 5th floor
(entrance on 27th st)
New York NY 10001

“There’s nothing like the feeling you get when you’re hearing your compositions and arrangements played by a wall of sound.” – Roy Hargrove

Originally started in the rehearsal space that would later become The Jazz Gallery, the Roy Hargrove Big Band had its inaugural performance at the Greenwich Village Jazz Festival in 1995. Since then, the band has toured domestically and internationally and has played everywhere from the Blue Note Tokyo to the Hollywood Bowl. Roy conducted the big band while also playing trumpet and flugelhorn and lending his vocal, most famously, on the fan favorite “September in the Rain”. The arrangements comprised of Roy’s original compositions, standards, and new music by band members and other contemporaries whom he respected. They released one album, Emergence, under Roy’s leadership in 2009.