Steppin' Out (Herb Alpert album)

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Steppin' Out
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Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 19, 2013
Genre Jazz
Label Shout! Factory
Producer Herb Alpert, Randy "Badazz" Alpert, Jeff Lorber, Lani Hall
Herb Alpert chronology
I Feel You
(2011)
Steppin' Out
(2013)

Steppin' Out is an album by Herb Alpert, released by the record label Shout! Factory on November 19, 2013. [1] In the United States, the album reached a peak position of number fifteen on Billboard's Jazz Albums chart, [2] and earned Alpert a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards on January 26, 2014.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Puttin' On the Ritz" (Irving Berlin) - 3:02
  2. "Jacky's Place" (Herb Alpert, Bill Cantos, Jeff Lorber) - 4:14
  3. "Our Song" (Art Pepper) - 5:03
  4. "Green Lemonade" (Alpert, Cantos, Lorber) - 4:04
  5. "I Only Have Eyes for You" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren)- 3:29
  6. "Good Morning Mr. Sunshine" (Rubén Fuentes) - 4:01
  7. "Oblivion" (Astor Piazzolla) - 4:26
  8. "What'll I Do?" (Berlin) - 3:31
  9. "Côte d'Azur" (Alpert, Cantos, Lorber) - 4:03
  10. "La Vie en Rose" (Édith Piaf, Louis Guglielmi) - 2:42
  11. "It's All in the Game" - 3:18
  12. "Europa" (Carlos Santana, Tom Coster) - 4:44
  13. "And the Angels Sing" (Johnny Mercer, Ziggy Elman) - 3:07
  14. "Skylark" (Hoagy Carmichael, Mercer) - 4:34
  15. "Migration" (Alpert, Cantos, Lorber) - 3:51
  16. "The Lonely Bull" (Sol Lake) - 4:39

Personnel

Production

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References

  1. Collar, Matt. "Steppin' Out". AllMusic . Rovi Corporation . Retrieved January 27, 2014.
  2. "Steppin' Out: Awards". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved January 27, 2014.