Emergence (Roy Hargrove album)
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| Studio album by Roy Hargrove Big Band | ||||
| Released | August 25, 2009 | |||
| Recorded | June 16 & 17, 2008 | |||
| Studio | Capitol Studios (Studio A), Hollywood, CA The Mastering Lab, Ojai, CA (mastering) | |||
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| Label | EmArcy B0013289-02 | |||
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Emergence is a studio album by trumpeter Roy Hargrove, released on August 25, 2009, by EmArcy Records.[1]
"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]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| All About Jazz |   [3] |
| AllMusic | [1] |
| The Guardian | [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. | Title | Writer(s) | Arranger | Length |
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| 1. | "Velera" | 4:13 | ||
| 2. | "Ms. Garvey, Ms. Garvey" | Jason Marshall | Marshall | 5:32 |
| 3. | "My Funny Valentine" | Max Seigel | 6:00 | |
| 4. | "Mambo for Roy" | Chucho Valdés | Valdés | 6:35 |
| 5. | "Requiem" | Frank Lacy | Lacy | 13:33 |
| 6. | "September in the Rain" | Hargrove | 6:58 | |
| 7. | "Everytime We Say Goodbye" | Cole Porter | Saul Rubin | 5:54 |
| 8. | "La Puerta" | Luis Demetrio | Hargrove | 3:27 |
| 9. | "Roy Allan" | 5:49 | ||
| 10. | "Tschpiso" | Hargrove | Gerald Clayton | 7:15 |
| 11. | "Trust" | 4:25 |