Roy Anthony Hargrove (October 16, 1969 – November 2, 2018) was an American jazz trumpeter.

He won worldwide notice after winning two Grammy Awards for differing types of music, in 1997 and in 2002. Hargrove primarily played in the hard bop style for the majority of his albums, especially performing jazz standards on his 1990's albums. Hargrove was the bandleader of the progressive group The RH Factor, which combined elements of jazz, funk, hip-hop, soul, and gospel music. Its members have included Chalmers "Spanky" Alford, Pino Palladino, James Poyser, Jonathan Batiste and Bernard Wright. His longtime manager was Larry Clothier. WIKIPEDIA

Robert F. "Bob" Bain (born January 26, 1924 in Chicago , died July 3, 2018 ) was an American studio and jazz musician and arranger , Peter Gunn and Tonight Show

Bain came to Los Angeles in the 1930s, where he finished his education. After graduation, he worked as a professional musician, first in the trio of Joe Wolverton, the mentor of Les Paul . Bain played in 1943 with Freddie Slack , with the first recordings made in 1944 in the band of Tommy Dorsey , for which he also arranged. In 1946 he moved to Bob Crosby , before he founded his own band, San Fernando Playboys . In the post-war years he worked with André Previn , Peggy Lee , Nat King Cole ("Unforgettable"), Sammy Davis Junior , Billie Holiday (" God Bless the Child ", 1950), Harry James , Herb Jeffries , Billy Eckstine and Frank Sinatra , on whose recordings for Capitol Records he participated. ( I've Got Under My Skin ). From the late 1950s, Bain was primarily employed as an arranger and session musician for RCA, Capitol and other labels; so he worked u. a. in recordings by Martin Denny , Mahalia Jackson , Matt Monro and Gene Vincent . For Capitol, he also played a number of instrumental numbers on singles ("Fender Bender") and LPs under his own name, stylistically oriented to popular styles of pop and rock & roll. With his brass ensemble (including Al Porcino , Don Fagerquist , Manny Klein , Milt Bernhard , Pete Candoli , Ray Triscari , Vern Friley ), he accompanied 1964 Junior Mance . In 1959 he was involved in Henry Mancini's film music to Peter Gunn . He is also heard in the soundtracks to television series like Bonanza , Smoking Colts , M * A * S * H , Cobra, Take Over, and Dick Rockford - Just Call . He worked u. a. also with Elmer Bernstein , Lalo Schifrin , Billy May , Shelly Manne and played for 22 years in Doc Severinsen 's Tonight Show Band . Bain performed until the 2010s, most recently in 2015 with John Pisano . In the field of jazz he was involved between 1943 and 2008 in 210 recording sessions.