Stepping Stones: Live at the Village Vanguard
by Woody Shaw
- Type: Album
- Released: 1978
- Label: Columbia
- Country: United States
- Length: 1:10:35
- Community rating: 4.19/5 from 3 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Featuring a stellar quintet with Carter Jefferson and Onaje Allan Gumbs, this recording from the legendary New York venue highlights Shaw's status as the final great innovator of the post-bop trumpet. His use of wide intervals and complex harmonic structures is captured with striking clarity, demonstrating a fierce intellectualism during a period when much of the jazz world was focused on fusion.
Genres
Descriptors: live, intricate, powerful, virtuosic, expansive
Tracklist
- Stepping Stone (9:12)
- In a Capricornian Way (11:16)
- Seventh Avenue (8:35)
- All Things Being Equal Are Not (12:04)
- Escape Velocity (11:14)
- Blues for Ball (17:12)
- Theme for Maxine (1:00)
Credits
- Woody Shaw - primary artist, cornet, flugelhorn, written-by
- Clint Houston - bass
- Victor Lewis - drums, written-by
- Onaje Allan Gumbs - piano, written-by
- Carter Jefferson - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone