Emergence (Roy Hargrove album)

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Emergence
Studio album by
Roy Hargrove Big Band
ReleasedAugust 25, 2009 (2009-08-25)
RecordedJune 16 & 17, 2008
Studio Capitol Studios (Studio A), Hollywood, CA
The Mastering Lab, Ojai, CA (mastering)
Genre
Label EmArcy
Producer
Roy Hargrove chronology
Earfood
(2008)		Emergence
(2009)		Live at the New Morning
(2010)

Emergence is a studio album by trumpeter Roy Hargrove, released on August 25, 2009, by EmArcy Records. [1]

Contents

"There's nothing like the feeling you get when you're hearing your compositions and arrangements played by a wall of sound."

— Roy Hargrove [2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
All About Jazz Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]

Thom Jurek of AllMusic concluded that "In all, Emergence is a stunner from top to bottom." [1] Robert J. Robbins, writing for All About Jazz , stated: "Hargrove has been steadily accumulating big band experience in his own right since 1995,... and Emergence is therefore most aptly titled, for it represents Hargrove's full-fledged emergence into the large ensemble idiom." [3] Journalist Josef Woodard of JazzTimes remarked, "With this new yet lived-in, road-tested and fine-sounding project, Hargrove does himself and the marginalized big-band culture a big favor." [5] BBC Music's Martin Longley wrote, "Hargrove has sculpted a deliberately mainline repertoire that jumps from hearty swing to roseate sentimentality. It's a slick, well-balanced sound that may well find the trumpeter a fresh audience of more mainstream-inclined jazz fans." [6]

Track listing

All tracks are written and arranged by Roy Hargrove except where noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Arranger(s)Length
1."Velera"  4:13
2."Ms. Garvey, Ms. Garvey"Jason MarshallMarshall5:32
3."My Funny Valentine"
Max Seigel6:00
4."Mambo for Roy" Chucho Valdés Valdés6:35
5."Requiem" Frank Lacy Lacy13:33
6."September in the Rain"
Hargrove6:58
7."Everytime We Say Goodbye" Cole Porter Saul Rubin5:54
8."La Puerta" Luis Demetrio Hargrove3:27
9."Roy Allan"  5:49
10."Tschpiso"Hargrove Gerald Clayton 7:15
11."Trust"  4:25

Personnel

Music

Production

References

  1. 1 2 3 Jurek, Thom. "Emergence - Roy Hargrove | Album | AllMusic". AllMusic . Retrieved January 7, 2026.
  2. ↑ "Roy Hargrove Legacy - RH Big Band". royhargroveofficial.com. Retrieved January 7, 2026.
  3. 1 2 Robbins, Robert J. (September 6, 2009). "Roy Hargrove: Emergence". All About Jazz . Retrieved January 7, 2026.
  4. ↑ Fordham, John (July 30, 2009). "Roy Hargrove: Big Band Emergence". The Guardian . Retrieved January 7, 2026.
  5. ↑ Woodard, Josef (November 1, 2009). "Roy Hargrove: Emergence". JazzTimes . Retrieved January 7, 2026.
  6. ↑ Longley, Martin (2009). "Roy Hargrove Big Band Emergence Review - Music". BBC . Retrieved January 7, 2026.
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