Grande-Terre (album)

Grande-Terre is a studio album by trumpeter Roy Hargrove's Crisol band, recorded in April 1998 and released by Verve Records on October 18, 2024. All of the album's tracks were produced without edits or overdubs.

Verve announced the previously-unheard archival album in September 2024. "Priorities", the tenth track, was released as an advance single on September 5, 2024

For this date, Crisol (Spanish for 'crucible') consisted of Hargrove with alto saxophonist Sherman Irby, tenor saxophonist (and native Guadeloupian) Jacques Schwarz-Bart, trombonist Frank Lacy, guitarist Ed Cherry, pianists Larry Willis and Gabriel Hernández, bassist Gerald Cannon, drummers Willie Jones and Julio Barreto, and percussionists Changuito and Miguel "Angá" Díaz.

For the album, Hargrove gathered a slightly different group from Habana (recorded January 5 & 6, 1997), a recording shortly prior with Crisol.

Track three, "Kamala's Dance" is named for Hargrove's daughter, born in 1997. "Priorities" features a spoken intro and outro by drummer Julio Barreto, in which he performs a 'nkame' chant in the Abakuá language, a standard initiation greeting.

In celebration of the Grande-Terre's release, members of Crisol reunited—Irby, Schwarz-Bart, Lacy, Cannon, Jones III, plus other musicians—to perform some of the album's music live in January 2025.