Harold Vick: Steppin’ Out (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) LP ETJS-5 A hip-hop sub-context lies just

A hip-hop sub-context lies just beneath the surface in the album’s skittering beats

A3: Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen

Santa Claus Is Coming To Town8

B1: The Little Rasti

Harold Vick: Steppin’ Out (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) LP ETJS-5 A hip-hop sub-context lies justBlue Note, 1963 Tenor saxophonist Harold Vick was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina and played with R&B bands coming up before working as a sideman with soul jazz organ greats including Jack McDuff and Big John Patton. Vick made his first Blue Note appearance in April 1963 on Pattons Along Came John, and a month later Alfred Lion brought the saxophonist back into the studio to record his own debut as a leader, the underrated soul jazz gem Steppin