Hargrove Documentary

***UPDATE: Now streaming on Amazon Prime In honor of @hargrovedocumentary ’s nationwide release in movie theaters in Japan today , [November 17, 2023], here is the HARGROVE teaser with Japanese subtitles!🇯🇵🎺🎬 Filmed in the jazz clubs of New York, Los Angeles, Paris and across Mediterranean Europe (Vienne, Perugia, Sète, Sorrento and Marseille) on his unexpectedly final tour, HARGROVE shines a bright spotlight on the genius of Roy Hargrove and his enormous contribution to the art of jazz. Key conversations expand beyond Roy’s personal story and explore the terrain of what it means to be an artist in America. HARGROVE dives into multidimensional perspectives on Black music while offering a glimpse into the politics of power and race in the music industry. Roy’s narrative reverberates in today’s Black Lives Matter movement with issues of ethics, exploitation, and empathy called into question. Told in vérité style, Hargrove interweaves themes of friendship, art, spirituality and death with stellar live performances and intimate interviews. Music icons Erykah Badu, Herbie Hancock, Questlove, Sonny Rollins, Wynton Marsalis and yasiin bey reflect on Roy’s indelible impact, giving him his place amongst the constellations. @erykahbadu @herbiehancock @questlove @sonnyrollinsbridgeproject @wyntonmarsalis @yasiinbey ニューヨーク、ロサンゼルス、パリ、そして地中海ヨーロッパ各地（ウィーン、ペルージャ、セーテ、ソレント、マルセイユ）のジャズクラブで彼の予期せぬ最後のツアーを撮影した『HARGROVE』は、ロイ・ハーグローブの天才と社会への多大な貢献に明るいスポットライトを当てています。ジャズの芸術。重要な会話はロイの個人的な物語を超えて広がり、アメリカでアーティストであることが何を意味するのかを探ります。 HARGROVE は、音楽業界における権力と人種の政治を垣間見ながら、黒人音楽に関する多面的な視点を掘り下げています。ロイの物語は、倫理、搾取、共感の問題が問われている今日の Black Lives Matter 運動に反映されています。真実のスタイルで語られるハーグローブは、友情、芸術、精神性、死といったテーマを素晴らしいライブ パフォーマンスや親密なインタビューと織り交ぜています。エリカ・バドゥ、ハービー・ハンコック、クエストラヴ、ソニー・ローリンズ、ウィントン・マルサリス、ヤシン・ベイといった音楽界のアイコンたちが、ロイの忘れられない影響力を振り返り、彼に星座の中での地位を与えています。

***UPDATE: Now Streaming on Amazon Prime*** Tonight in Shibuya, Tokyo we will premiere HARGROVE, A Film by Eliane Henri.🇯🇵🎺🎬 Starring: Roy Hargrove; Erykah Badu; Herbie Hancock; Questlove; Sonny Rollins; Wynton Marsalis and Yasiin Bey. Also featuring interviews with jazz legends: Antonio Hart; Christian McBride; Frank Lacy; Gerald Cannon; Marc Cary; Ralph Moore; Robert Glasper; and Willie Jones iii Filmed throughout his last tour across Mediterranean Europe @hargrovedocumentary shines a bright spotlight on Roy Hargrove’s enormous contribution to the art of jazz and the mentoring of young musicians. Told in vérité style this film exposes the dark and challenging sides of an artist pure in form, yet vulnerable to everyday realities while exploring themes of friendship, art, love, spirituality and death. A pOplife production in association with @foldingchairproductions *IN THEATERS NOVEMBER 17TH, 2023. Tokyo, Japan.

Here with the some of the jazz studies and film students after the @hargrovedocumentary screening and Q+A at University of Michigan on Monday. @uofmichigan . (Professors and esteemed musicians Andy Milne and Bob Hurst also in this photo) I always love connecting with students at live screening events at universities, colleges and high schools. So far I have shown the entire film followed by a discussion with students at Berklee College of Music (Boston), Booker T Washington School of the Performing Arts (Dallas), Juilliard (NYC), The New School (NYC), University of Miami and University of Pittsburgh. Before I completed the film my mentor, the GREAT Sam Pollard even showed the first twenty minutes of my final rough cut to his final class before retirement at NYU Tisch film school in New York and they called me over the phone for a Q+A with film students. These have all been some of my favorite experiences along the journey of getting this timeless cultural classic out to the world. I look forward to more live educational events/screenings and Q+As with faculty + students at universities and colleges in 2025.

Audio Visual check before the screening of HARGROVE, A Film by Eliane Henri at University of Michigan Museum of Art for the jazz studies and film students. Thank you to professors and esteemed musicians Andy Milne and Bob Hurst for bringing me out for this! @hargrovedocumentary @uofmichigan @andy.milne.music @roberthurstbass

UPDATE: NOW STREAMING ON AMAZON PRIME Great News! HARGROVE has been licensed by Amazon Prime (@amazonprime ) and is now available to buy or rent there in its uncensored entirety in two weeks. ***please note this version of the cemetery scene I included in this post is from one of the final rough cuts , not the final film. We had not selected the final archival photographs or finished the color or sound mix yet . FOR YOUR GRAMMY® CONSIDERATION

Excerpt from HARGROVE, A Film by Eliane Henri, now streaming on @primevideo Link in bio @hargrovedocumentary & @poplife_productions “Beautiful people will find ways to be beautiful even in a brutal world” A pOplife production in association with @foldingchairproductions #RoyHargrove #YasiinBey #BlackMusic #BlackFilm

On my way to a Pan African Film & Arts Festival alumni event and thought I’d share a little story about my experience with that festival on this occasion. 🎺🎶🎬💜 @hargrovedocumentary was an Official Selection at the February 2023 PAFF and won the Audience Award for Best Documentary. I had to delete the first time I tried to post this bc for some reason instagram cut the video before it finished. HARGROVE, A Film by Eliane Henri will be available for streaming in North America, Friday, June 28th on @pbs @blackpublicmedia and @worldchannel .

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE “The resulting film, Hargrove, is a beautiful and often heart-wrenching meditation on the trumpeter’s creative genius and the ways in which artists are exploited by the music industry.” — The Guardian BLACK PUBLIC MEDIA AND WORLD TO RELEASE HARGROVE FOR BLACK MUSIC MONTH The Erykah Badu & @janineshermanbarrois executive-produced documentary, capturing the final tour of jazz luminary Roy Hargrove’s life, begins streaming on Friday, June 28 NEW YORK (June 17, 2024) — 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, the documentary follows Grammy Award-winning artist Roy Hargrove as he battles illness to charm audiences during a European summer tour. The film premieres on Friday, June 28 as an AfroPoP special, streaming on the WORLD YouTube channel, worldchannel.org and blackpublicmedia.org. Originally intended as a portrait of a jazz great in the prime of his career, the film ultimately depicts the final year of Hargrove’s life. He died suddenly during filming. The documentary sees the famed trumpeter reflecting on his career and role in the contemporary jazz scene as well as on the joys and struggles of life as an artist. The film is directed, produced and written by Henri, who maintained a 28-year friendship with Hargrove. She followed him in Los Angeles, Paris, New York, Vienne, Perugia, Sète, Sorrento and Marseille for the documentary. “Roy Hargrove was an innovative and unparalleled talent who helped jazz find new audiences at the turn of the 21st century through his musical prowess, which saw him honor sounds like bebop and big band while also merging with the stylings of hip-hop and neo-soul,” said series executive producer and BPM executive director Leslie Fields-Cruz. “HARGROVE is a moving exploration of his unique skills as well as a window into the trials and tests so many artists face. We are thrilled to have the documentary, which now stands as a lasting memorial to his life and gifts, premiere as part of AfroPoP.

HARGOVE: The interviews !!! 🎺 🎶 🎤 🎬 💫 This reel is behind the scenes clips of when I shot the interviews during the making of the film @hargrovedocumentary Thank you for your time and your honesty: Erykah Badu @erykahbadu Yasiin Bey @yasiinbey Herbie Hancock @herbiehancock Questlove @questlove Wynton Marsalis @wyntonmarsalis Sonny Rollins @sonnyrollinsbridgeproject Frank Lacy #FrankLacy Gerald Cannon @gbasscleff Christian McBride @chrmcbride Robert Glasper @robertglasper Marc Cary @marccarymusic Ralph Moore #RalphMoore Antonio Hart @allhartmusic Willie Jones iii @straightswingin68 Evan Sherman @evanshermanmusic Although this is not at all a “talking heads” film , the realness of each and every one of these interviews added so much insight and depth to the movie. (The 1st pictures of me and Erykah were when I did her interview, the last ones are from the Dallas International Film Festival). HARGROVE, A Film by Eliane Henri, streaming in North America June 28th, 2024 on PBS, Black Public Media and World Channel. @hargrovedocumentary @pbs @blackpublicmedia @worldchannel A pOplife production in association with @foldingchairproductions

We are thrilled to announce that HARGROVE, A Film by Eliane Henri, will be available for streaming in North America June 28, 2024 on PBS, Black Public Media and the World Channel. @pbs @blackpublicmedia @worldchannel The vérité film chronicles trumpet legend Roy Hargrove’s final tour as he tells his own story in his own words through the reflective lens of the last year of his life in 2018. Filmmaker Eliane Henri travels with Hargrove through Los Angeles, Paris, New York and Mediterranean Europe (Vienne, Perugia, Sète, Sorrento and Marseille) capturing his final interviews and live performances in this poignant portrait of an artist pure in form yet vulnerable to every day realities. Music icons Erykah Badu, Herbie Hancock, Questlove, Sonny Rollins , Yasiin Bey and Wynton Marsalis pay homage to the late virtuoso in heartfelt interviews. @erykahbadu @herbiehancock @questlove @sonnyrollinsbridgeproject @yasiinbey @wyntonmarsalis A pOplife production in association with @foldingchairproductions The film can be streamed on any of the following platforms: * Blackpublicmedia.org.  * PBS.org (your local PBS station’s website) * The PBS App * worldchannel.org * WORLDchannel YouTube Director: Eliane Henri Producer: Eliane Henri, Dana Guerin Executive Producer: @janineshermanbarrois , Erykah Badu, and Scott Adler. Cinematographer: Robert Benavides Editor: Joseph Marconi Poster design: Joseph Marconi *** For those in Los Angeles a pre screening of the film will be held Monday June 24th at 7pm @theworldstage in Liemert Park followed by Q+A with director Eliane Henri .

In honor of HARGROVE, a Film by Eliane Henri, finally being released in North America later this month I want to take a moment to thank my dear friend the late great Roy Hargrove for entrusting me with telling the story of his life through the lens of his last year . Today, June 12th is the 2 year anniversary of our world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival. HARGROVE was released in theaters in Japan last November 2023, and later this month will finally be available to stream in North America. Follow @hargrovedocumentary and @poplife_productions for details of exactly where and when you can stream HARGROVE. We did it Roy! 🎺🎬🎶❤️ *** The clips in this reel are from behind the scenes during the making of the film through out the year of 2018. Los Angeles, Paris, New York, Vienne, Perugia, Sète, Sorrento, Marseille. 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇹

That time I was in Sorrento, Italy shooting my film and the guitar and mandolin players in my hotel lobby serenaded me with “California Dreamin” in Italian. 🇮🇹 #FlashbackFriday #Sorrento #Italy @hargrovedocumentary #CaliforniaDreamin #SognoCalifornia 🎶 Stay tuned : coming soon the release of HARGROVE in North America. I will be announcing the release date on the @hargrovedocumentary IG page.