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Roy Hargrove, a keen trumpeter, who as a young steward, brilliantly bridged bebop tradition to hip-hop and R&B, died on Friday night in New York City. He was 49. The cause was cardiac arrest, according to his longtime manager, Larry Clothier. Hargrove had been admitted to the hospital for reasons related to kidney function; he had been on dialysis for many years, reports NPR. Hargrove was a two-time Grammy winner, in two illustrative categories: Best Jazz Instrumental Album in 2003 for Directions in Music, featuring a post-bop supergroup with pianist Herbie Hancock and saxophonist Michael Brecker; and Best Latin Jazz Performance in 1998 for Habana, a groundbreaking Afro-Cuban project recorded in Havana. Hargrove had been scheduled to perform on Saturday in a jazz vespers service at Bethany Baptist Church in Newark, N.J., as part of the TD James Moody Jazz Festival. 🙏🏿 Photo: Fredric Ragot/Redferns #royhargrove #trumpeter #pioneer #unheardvoicesheroes #unheardvoicespioneer #jazz #blackhistory #rip #jazz #bebop #music #jazzlegend #legend https://www.instagram.com/p/BpuqEWGAplt/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=tulabvqwasoq

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Ms. Montague was one of a number of black women who, starting in the 1930s, performed invaluable, highly technical work for the United States government but who, working behind the scenes, were invisible to the public — and often to their colleagues. In a breakthrough achievement, she also revolutionized the way the Navy designed ships and submarines using a computer program she developed in the early 1970s. It would have normally taken two years to produce a rough design of a ship on paper, but during the heat of the Vietnam War Ms. Montague was given one month to design the specifications for a frigate. She did it in 18 hours and 26 minutes. At the height of her career, she was briefing the Joint Chiefs of Staff every month and teaching at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. Many of her ship designs are still in use. Although she was decorated by the Navy, Ms. Montague, who retired from the service in 1990, was not acknowledged publicly until 2012, when The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette wrote an in-depth profile of her. She was not recognized nationally until the publication in 2016 of "Hidden Figures". Margot Lee Shetterly’s best-selling account of the black female mathematicians at NASA who facilitated some of the nation’s greatest achievements in space. Raye Montage died of congestive heart failure on Oct. 10 at a hospital in Little Rock, Ark., her son, David R. Montague, said. She was 83. Via: #NewYorkTimes #hiddenfigure #rayemontague #blackhistory #unheardvoicesheroes https://www.instagram.com/p/BpLPcGWhc95/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1bdvj2l6o001r

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