Steppin' Out with a Dream

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Steppin' Out with a Dream
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Released1976
Recorded1976
Studio The Village Recorder, Los Angeles, California
Genre Jazz
Length43:21
Label 20th Century STEC249/T-515
Producer Ahmad Jamal under the supervision of Paul Gayten
Ahmad Jamal chronology
Genetic Walk
(1975)
Steppin' Out with a Dream
(1976)
Live at Oil Can Harry's, Recorded Live at Oil Can Harry's
(1976)
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Steppin' Out with a Dream is an album by American jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal recorded in 1976 and released on the 20th Century label. [1]

Contents

Track listing

All compositions by Ahmad Jamal unless noted.

Side one

  1. "Handicapper" – 7:37
  2. "Prelude to a Kiss" (Irving Gordon, Irving Mills, Duke Ellington) – 7:50
  3. "My One and Only Love" (Robert Mellin, Guy Wood) – 8:48

Side two

  1. "Tucson" – 9:10
  2. "Crossfire" – 9:56

Personnel

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