Step Lightly

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Studio album by Blue Mitchell
Released 1980
Recorded August 13, 1963
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length38:14
Label Blue Note
LT 1082/BST 84142
Producer Alfred Lion
Blue Mitchell chronology
The Cup Bearers
(1962) The Cup Bearers1962		Step Lightly
(1963)		 The Thing to Do
(1964) The Thing to Do1964

Step Lightly is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell featuring his first session recorded for the Blue Note label in 1963 but not released until 1980. [1]

Blue Mitchell American musician

Richard Allen "Blue" Mitchell was an American jazz, rhythm and blues, soul, rock and funk trumpeter, and composer, who recorded many albums as leader and sideman for Riverside, Blue Note and Mainstream Records.

Blue Note Records American record label

Blue Note Records is an American jazz record label that is owned by Universal Music Group and operated with Decca Records. Established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis, it derives its name from the blue notes of jazz and the blues. Originally dedicated to recording traditional jazz and small group swing, from 1947 the label began to switch its attention to modern jazz. Although the original company did not record many of the pioneers of bebop, significant exceptions are Thelonious Monk, Fats Navarro and Bud Powell.

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Reception

Professional ratings
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The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars and stated "music is consistently excellent... Worth searching for". [2]

Scott Yanow is an American jazz reviewer, historian, and author.

Track listing

  1. "Mamacita" (Joe Henderson) - 5:49
  2. "Sweet and Lovely" (Gus Arnheim, Jules Lemare, Harry Tobias) - 7:45
  3. "Andrea" (Roger Boykin) - 5:16
  4. "Step Lightly" (Henderson) - 8:32
  5. "Cry Me a River" (Arthur Hamilton) - 6:46
  6. "Bluesville" (Sonny Red) - 4:07

Personnel

Trumpet musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group contains the instruments with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpet-like instruments have historically been used as signaling devices in battle or hunting, with examples dating back to at least 1500 BC; they began to be used as musical instruments only in the late 14th or early 15th century. Trumpets are used in art music styles, for instance in orchestras, concert bands, and jazz ensembles, as well as in popular music. They are played by blowing air through nearly-closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound that starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the instrument. Since the late 15th century they have primarily been constructed of brass tubing, usually bent twice into a rounded rectangular shape.

Leo Wright was an American jazz musician who played alto saxophone, flute and clarinet. He played with Charles Mingus, Kenny Burrell, Johnny Coles, Blue Mitchell and Dizzy Gillespie in the late 1950s, early 1960s and in the late 1970s.

Alto saxophone type of saxophone

The alto saxophone, also referred to as the alto sax, is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s, and patented in 1846. It is pitched in E♭, and is smaller than the tenor, but larger than the soprano. The alto sax is the most common saxophone and is commonly used in concert bands, chamber music, solo repertoire, military bands, marching bands, and jazz. The fingerings of the different saxophones are all the same so a saxophone player can play any type of saxophone.

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References

  1. ↑ Blue Mitchell discography accessed October 27, 2010
  2. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed October 27, 2010
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