Sentinel News ServiceFebruary 19, 2023
With very few resources, first-time film director, Eliane Henri, audaciously filmed in the jazz clubs of New York, Los Angeles, Paris and across Mediterranean Europe, chronicling the last year of of her friend and trumpet legend, Roy Hargrove’s life. HARGROVE, a documentary that Henri screened at the Pan African Festival in Baldwin Hills on February 14, returns to PAFF for a final screening on Sunday, February 19, dives into multidimensional perspectives on Black music while offering a glimpse into the politics of power and race in the music industry. A defiant Henri appears in the film as Roy’s biographer and confidante,