Steppin' Out!

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars and stated "There are no real surprises, but no disappointments either on what would be Harold Vick's only chance to lead a Blue Note date. At 27 he was already a fine player".^[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Harold Vick except where noted

"Our Miss Brooks" - 7:27
"Trimmed in Blue" - 6:10
"Laura" (David Raksin, Johnny Mercer) - 4:39
"Dotty's Dream" - 6:24
"Vicksville" - 5:39
"Steppin' Out" - 5:50

Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on May 27, 1963

Personnel

Charts

2022 chart performance for *Steppin' Out!*
Chart (2022)	Peak position
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)^[3]	98

References

^ Blue Note Records discography accessed November 12, 2010
^ ^a ^b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed November 12, 2010
^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Harold Vick / Blue Mitchell / Grant Green / John Patton / Ben Dixon – Steppin' Out!" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved November 11, 2022.

v t e Harold Vick
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Albums	Steppin' Out! (1963) The Caribbean Suite (1966) Straight Up (1966) Commitment (1967) Don't Look Back (1974)

v t e Blue Mitchell
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Big 6 (1958) Get Those Elephants Out'a Here (with Red and Whitey Mitchell, 1958) Out of the Blue (1959) Blue Soul (1959) Blue's Moods (1960) Smooth as the Wind (1960–61) A Sure Thing (1962) The Cup Bearers (1962) Step Lightly (1963) The Thing to Do (1964) Down with It! (1965) Bring It Home to Me (1966) Boss Horn (1966) Heads Up! (1967) Collision in Black (1968) Bantu Village (1969) Blue Mitchell/Soul Village (1971) Vital Blue (1971) Blues' Blues (1972) The Last Tango = Blues (1973) Graffiti Blues (1973) Many Shades of Blue (1974) Stratosonic Nuances (1975) Funktion Junction (1976) African Violet (1977) Mapenzi (1977) Stablemates (1977) Summer Soft (1977)
With Lou Donaldson	Quartet/Quintet/Sextet (1952) The Time Is Right (1959) Mr. Shing-A-Ling (1967) Midnight Creeper (1968) Say It Loud! (1968) Everything I Play Is Funky (1970) Pretty Things (1970)
With Philly Joe Jones	Together! (with Elvin Jones, 1961) Drums Around the World (1959) Showcase (1959) Advance! (1978) Drum Song (1978)
With Sam Jones	The Soul Society (1960) The Chant (1961) Down Home (1962) Something in Common (1974–77) Changes & Things (1977)
With Jimmy McGriff	The Worm (1968) Step 1 (1968) A Thing to Come By (1969) Electric Funk (1969)
With Horace Silver	Blowin' the Blues Away (1959) Finger Poppin' (1959) Horace-Scope (1960) Doin' the Thing (1961) The Tokyo Blues (1962) Silver's Serenade (1963) Song for My Father (1963–64)
With Stanley Turrentine	A Chip off the Old Block (1963) In Memory Of (1964) Rough 'n' Tumble (1966) The Spoiler (1966) A Bluish Bag (1967) The Return of the Prodigal Son (1967) The Sugar Man (1971)
With others	Portrait of Cannonball (Cannonball Adderley, 1958) Back to the Tracks (Tina Brooks, 1960) Street Singer (Tina Brooks and Jackie McLean, 1960) My Kind of Jazz (Ray Charles, 1970) True Blue (Al Cohn and Dexter Gordon, 1976) Silver Blue (with Al Cohn and Dexter Gordon, 1976) Dolo! (Dolo Coker, 1976) California Hard (Dolo Coker, 1976) Junior's Cookin' (Junior Cook, 1961) Filthy! (Papa John Creach, 1972) Red's Good Groove (Red Garland, 1962) Green Is Beautiful (Grant Green, 1970) Soul Mist! (Richard "Groove" Holmes, 1966) Homecoming! (Elmo Hope, 1961) Montara (Bobby Hutcherson, 1975) The Soul Brotherhood (Charles Kynard, 1969) The Blue Yusef Lateef (Yusef Lateef, 1968) Rakin' and Scrapin' (Harold Mabern, 1968) Jazz Blues Fusion (John Mayall, 1971) Ten Years Are Gone (John Mayall, 1973) Les McCann Ltd. in New York (Les McCann, 1961) Can't Hide Love (Carmen McRae, 1976) Capuchin Swing (Jackie McLean, 1960) Jackie's Bag (Jackie McLean, 1960) Hi Voltage (Hank Mobley, 1967) Captain Buckles (David "Fathead" Newman, 1970) Opus De Don (Don Patterson, 1968) Oh Baby! (Big John Patton, 1965) Breezing (Sonny Red, 1960) Images (Sonny Red, 1961) Good Move! (Freddie Roach, 1963) Takin' Care of Business (Charlie Rouse, 1960) Open House (Jimmy Smith, 1960) Plain Talk (Jimmy Smith, 1960) Sonny Stitt & the Top Brass (Sonny Stitt, 1962) Soul Time (Bobby Timmons, 1960) Steppin' Out! (Harold Vick, 1963) The Caribbean Suite (Harold Vick, 1966) Spectrum (Cedar Walton, 1968) The Electric Boogaloo Song (Cedar Walton, 1969) Beyond Mobius (Cedar Walton, 1976) Money in the Pocket (Joe Zawinul, 1966)

v t e "Big" John Patton
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader	Along Came John (1963) Blue John (1963) The Way I Feel (1964) Oh Baby! (1965) Let 'Em Roll (1965) Got a Good Thing Goin' (1966) Boogaloo (1968) That Certain Feeling (1968) Understanding (1968) Accent on the Blues (1969) Memphis to New York Spirit (1969–70) Soul Connection (1983) Blue Planet Man (1993) Minor Swing (1994) This One's for Ja (1996)
With Lou Donaldson	The Natural Soul (1962) A Man With a Horn (1963) Good Gracious! (1963) Signifyin' (1963) Possum Head (1964)
With others	Am I Blue (Grant Green, 1963) Blues for Lou (Grant Green, 1963) Iron City (Grant Green, 1967) Soul Groove (Johnny Griffin and Matthew Gee, 1963) The Burner (Red Holloway, 1963) Soul Fountain (Clifford Jordan, 1966) Everything Must Change (Johnny Lytle, 1977) Rockin' the Boat (Jimmy Smith, 1963) Steppin' Out! (Harold Vick, 1963) Shoutin' (Don Wilkerson, 1963) The Big Gundown (1984–85) Spillane (1986–87)

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