Western Michigan University hosts a daylong celebration of jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove tomorrow, Oct 11, featuring workshops and a concert with five renowned guest artists.
The Trumpet Summit in Honor of Roy Hargrove begins at 10 a.m. in the Dalton Center recital hall with free workshops continuing until 5 p.m., followed by a ticketed concert at 7:30 p.m.
Event organizer Millard Southern, a doctoral student at WMU and pastor at Allen Chapel AME Church in Kalamazoo, knew Hargrove personally. “Roy was very giving. And he wanted to see young people take hold of this music,” Southern says. He’s currently writing Hargrove’s biography and describes the late trumpeter as “one of the most important jazz musicians of our times.”…