Selected Press

  • (Dallas News) The documentary is a poignant look at a great trumpeter whose life was far too short. There’s a scene in the poignant documentary Hargrove where Erykah Badu gets teary-eyed recalling the late Dallas trumpeter Roy Hargrove.
    The two had been tight since the ‘80s, when both were learning their craft at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. By 2003, Badu was the bigger star of the two. But she was still nervous when the pint-size trumpeter with the big, muscular tone invited her to sing on his genre-blurring album Hard Groove.
  • (Black Star News) AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange marks Black Music Month with the release of HARGROVE, Eliane Henri’s intimate portrait of an international superstar on what unexpectedly was his last world tour. Executive produced by Erykah Badu and Janine Sherman Barrois, the documentary follows Grammy Award-winning artist Roy Hargrove as he battles illness to charm audiences during a European summer tour.
  • (The Guardian) Film-maker Eliane Henri set out to chronicle the day-to-day life of revered jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove – but didn’t know she would also be documenting his untimely death.
  • (Variety) Erykah Badu, executive producer of the forthcoming documentary about late jazz and R&B trumpeter Roy Hargrove, wastes no time in elaborating on the influence her collaborator and high school classmate exerted on her life and career.