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To Roy (Intakt)
ONE of the truly incendiary trumpeters of the post-bop era of jazz was Roy Campbell, born in Los Angeles in 1952, and who died on the other side of the jazz continent, in the Bronx in 2014.
Virtuoso of trumpet, flugelhorn and flute, Campbell was an eclectic who played bebop, R’n’B and funk before establishing himself as an iconic avant-garde hornman in bands like Other Dimensions in Music, the Pyramid Trio and the Nu Band, with whom he was playing right up to his death.
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