Hardgroove
Context
Composition by Bernard Wright that opens Hard Groove, the first album by Roy Hargrove's RH Factor, released on Verve on May 20, 2003. Recorded in 2002 at Electric Lady Studios in New York, the album crosses jazz, funk, soul and hip-hop with guests such as D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, Q-Tip or Common.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk, Acid jazz, jazz-rap, nu jazz. Among the origins and influences of Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk: Modal, Soul jazz, boogaloo, Hard bop, Free jazz, Brazilian instrumental music, Indo-jazz, Modern big bands, Clube da Esquina (Minas Gerais).