Emergence is a studio album by trumpeter Roy Hargrove, released on August 25, 2009, by EmArcy Records.
Thom Jurek of AllMusic concluded that "In all, Emergence is a stunner from top to bottom." 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." 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." 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."
All tracks are written and arranged by Roy Hargrove except where noted.
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