Music Review

With the Tenors of Our Time (1994)

EW's GRADE
A-

Details Lead Performance: Roy Hargrove Quintet; Genre: Jazz

In the same way that donning those vintage Yankee pinstripes brought out something special in players new to the club, teaming up with today's premier tenor saxophonists seems to have triggered Roy Hargrove's much-vaunted potential. The young trumpeter holds his own on With Tenors of Our Time with heavy hitters Johnny Griffin and Joe Henderson, even on slippery tunes like ''Greens at the Chicken Shack'' and ''Valse Hot.'' A-

Originally posted May 27, 1994 Published in issue #224 May 27, 1994 Order article reprints
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