Family (Roy Hargrove album)
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| Released | June 20, 1995 | |||
| Recorded | January 26–29, 1995 | |||
| Studio | Studio B, Clinton Recording Studios, NYC | |||
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| Length | 78:19 | |||
| Label | Verve 314 527 630-2 | |||
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Family is a studio album by trumpeter Roy Hargrove, recorded on January 26–29, 1995, and released on June 20 of the same year, by Verve Records.[1][2] It features Hargrove on trumpet in a quintet with saxophonist Ron Blake and three different rhythm sections (piano, bass, drums), plus guest artists: trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and saxophonists David "Fathead" Newman and Jesse Davis.
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Los Angeles Times |  [3] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [4] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [5] |
Scott Yanow, writing for AllMusic, stated: "This well-rounded set not only features trumpeter Roy Hargrove with his mid-'90s quintet... but with two other rhythm sections and a few special guests. Hargrove shows off his warm tone on 'The Nearness of You'..., and other highlights include the lyrical 'Pas de Trois,'... Larry Willis' 'Ethiopia,' and a driving version of 'Firm Roots.' A meeting between Hargrove and Wynton Marsalis on the bop standard 'Nostalgia' is disappointingly tame, but otherwise this is a high-quality modern hard bop release."[1]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide wrote: "Family similarly uses several stars with little focus... The album's saving graces are the fiercely bopping 'Firm Roots' and the almost eerily introspective Booker/Hargrove duet on 'Ethiopia.'"[5]
Don Heckman of the Los Angeles Times wrote that "Hargrove now appears in yet another carefully planned production—one that embraces players from every stage of his brief but impressive career".[3]