The RH Factor – Hard Groove

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Tracklist

1	Hardgroove Clavinet – Bobby Sparks	5:34
2	Common Free Style Backing Vocals – Roy Hargrove Featuring – Common	5:58
3	I'll Stay Backing Vocals – Roy Hargrove Vocals, Electric Piano [Wurlitzer], Backing Vocals – D'Angelo	7:51
4	Interlude	1:00
5	Pastor "T" Tenor Saxophone – Keith Anderson	5:45
6	Poetry Bass – Me'Shell NdegéOcello Drums – Gene Lake Electric Piano [Wurlitzer] – Marc Cary Featuring – Q-Tip Keyboards, Piano – Roy Hargrove Vocals – Erykah Badu Bass – Me'Shell NdegéOcello Drums – Gene Lake Electric Piano [Wurlitzer] – Marc Cary Featuring – Q-Tip Keyboards, Piano – Roy Hargrove Vocals – Erykah Badu	5:49
7	The t Percussion – Roy Hargrove	5:40
8	Forget Regret Flute, Acoustic Guitar – Jacques Schwarz-Bart Vocals – Stephanie McKay	3:53
9	Out Of Town Alto Saxophone – Steve Coleman Keyboards, Bass – Roy Hargrove Tenor Saxophone – Keith Loftis Trumpet – Maurice Brown (3)	3:58
10	Liquid Streets Acoustic Guitar – Jacques Schwarz-Bart Guitar – Cornell Dupree	4:59
11	Kwah/Home Bass – Me'Shell NdegéOcello Electric Piano [Wurlitzer] – Marc Cary Soprano Saxophone – Jacques Schwarz-Bart Vocals – Anthony Hamilton	5:59
12	How I Know Piano, Harp – Bernard Wright Vocals – Shelby Johnson	4:58
13	Juicy Flute – Karl Denson Percussion – Roy Hargrove Vocals – Renee Neufville*	6:35
14	The Stroke Bass – John Lee (3) Organ [B3] – Tony Suggs Percussion – Kwaku Obeng	4:58

Alto Saxophone – Keith Anderson (tracks: 1, 3, 5, 6, 9, 13)
Art Direction – Hollis King
Backing Vocals, Drum Programming, Finger Snaps – Dontae Winslow (tracks: 2, 10, 14)
Backing Vocals, Drums [Virtual Drums], Drum Programming – G. Craig "Butter" Glanville (tracks: 2, 7, 8)
Backing Vocals, Electric Piano [Rhodes], Keyboards – James Poyser (tracks: 2, 10, 13)
Backing Vocals, Keyboards, Piano, Harp, Organ [B3] – Bernard Wright (tracks: 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 12 to 14)
Bass – Reggie Washington (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 13)
Co-producer – Russell "The Dragon" Elevado*
Design – Sachico Asano
Drums – Willie Jones III (tracks: 2, 4, 9 to 11, 13, 14)
Electric Piano [Rhodes], Harp, Organ [B3] – Bobby Sparks (tracks: 5, 7, 8, 12)
Engineer [Additional Engineering] – Steve Mandel
Engineer [Engineered By], Mixed By – Russell "The Dragon" Elevado*
Executive-Producer – Larry Clothier
Flugelhorn – Roy Hargrove (tracks: 6, 8, 11 to 13)
Guitar – Spanky (2) (tracks: 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 12)
Illustration – Rudy Gutierrez
Mastered By – Chris Gehringer
Percussion – Daniel Moreno (tracks: 1, 7, 13, 14)
Photography By – Hans Neleman
Producer – Roy Hargrove
Tenor Saxophone – Jacques Schwarz-Bart (tracks: 1 to 3, 6, 8 to 10, 11, 13, 14)
Trumpet – Roy Hargrove (tracks: 1 to 7, 10 to 12, 14)

The front cover and disc state: "The RH Factor" and "Hard Groove".
Both spines state: "Roy Hargrove Presents The RH Factor Hard Groove".

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	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
Recently Edited	Hard Groove (2×LP, Album)	Verve Records	440 065 192-1	US	2003
	Hard Groove (CD, Album)	Verve Records	065 192-2	Europe	2003
Recently Edited	Hard Groove (2×LP, Album)	Verve Records	065 192-1	UK & Europe	2003
New Submission	Hard Groove (CD, Advance, Album, Promo)	Verve Records	VERF 01225-2	US	2003
Recently Edited	Hard Groove (CD, Album)	Universal Music	FPBCD 375	South Africa	2003

durdatl Dec 14, 2018
phenomenal album. roy was a true renaissance man when it came to many styles of jazz, and im super sad that the public at large kept him kind of an underground guy here in the states. man oh man, what i wouldnt have given to hear a new rh factor album.