Earfood

Earfood is a jazz album by the Roy Hargrove Quintet, issued by the EmArcy record label in 2008.

[6] Chinen declared the album to "attest to a classic jazz ideal" while "rarely sound[ing] as if [Hargrove] stepped out of a time machine".

[2] Texas Monthly deemed Earfood to be a "fiery, sonically powerful, spontaneous" session, but simulataneously criticized it for being "too ballad-heavy".

Di Piero as a "peerless balladeer, the equal of Miles and Freddie", with readers invited to "listen to 'Joy Is Sorrow Unmasked' and 'Speak Low' on Earfood: shut your eyes and you hear the flugel's ancestors".

[16] Some jazz critics, though enthused by Hargrove's approach to Earfood, were less so by its execution, with John Fordham from The Guardian describing the exceptional musicianship as creating an "atmosphere of infallibility" and giving the session an "unjazzy character".