''Stepping Into Tomorrow'' is a 1974 album by jazz
trumpeter Donald Byrd
Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II (December 9, 1932 – February 4, 2013) was an American jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter and vocalist. A sideman for many other jazz musicians of his generation, Byrd was one of the few hard bop m ...
.
The
Allmusic Review by Andy Kellman awards the album with 4 stars.
[Kellman, A Allmusic Review: ''Stepping in to Tomorrow''accessed 12 May 2010]
Track listing
#"Stepping Into Tomorrow" (
Larry Mizell) – 5:06
#"Design A Nation" (Mizell) – 4:19
#"We’re Together" (Mizell) – 4:23
#"Think Twice" (Sigidi, Mizell, Mbaji) – 6:10
#"Makin’ It" (Harvey Mason) – 3:46
#"Rock ‘N’ Roll Again" (Mizell) – 6:08
#"You Are The World" (Mizell) – 4:29
#"I Love The Girl" (
Donald Byrd
Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II (December 9, 1932 – February 4, 2013) was an American jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter and vocalist. A sideman for many other jazz musicians of his generation, Byrd was one of the few hard bop m ...
) – 3:52
Personnel
* Donald Byrd - trumpet, flugelhorn, vocals
*
Gary Bartz - alto sax, soprano sax, clarinet
* James Carter - whistler on "Rock And Roll Again"
* Mayuto Correa - congas
*
Margie Evans, Kay Haith,
Freddie Perren - background vocals
*
Fonce Mizell - trumpet, clarinet, background vocals
*
Jerry Peters - organ, piano
* John Rowin,
David T. Walker
David T. Walker (born June 25, 1941) is an American guitarist, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In addition to numerous session musician duties since the early 1970s, Walker has issued fifteen albums in his own name.
Career
David T. Walker was born to ...
- guitar
* Larry Mizell -
Fender Rhodes
The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s. Like a conventional piano, the Rhodes generates sound with keys and hammers, but instead of strings, th ...
,
ARP synthesizers
ARP Instruments, Inc. was a Lexington, Massachusetts manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, founded by Alan Robert Pearlman
in 1969. It created a popular and commercially successful range of synthesizers throughout the 1970s before de ...
, background vocals
*
Chuck Rainey
Charles Walter Rainey III (born June 17, 1940) is an American bass guitarist who has performed and recorded with many well-known acts, including Aretha Franklin, Steely Dan, and Quincy Jones. Rainey is credited for playing bass on more than 1,00 ...
- bass
*
Harvey Mason
Harvey William Mason (born February 22, 1947) is an American jazz drummer, record producer, and member of the band Fourplay.
Mason, who attended Berklee in the 1960s, received an Honorary Doctorate at Berklee's 2015 Commencement Ceremony for ...
- drums, bata drums
* Roger Sainte - percussion
* Ronghea Southern - guitar on "Think Twice"
*
Stephanie Spruill - percussion, background vocals
References
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1974 albums
Donald Byrd albums
Blue Note Records albums
Jazz-funk albums