Donald Byrd - Stepping Into Tomorrow

Tracklist Hide Credits

A1	Stepping Into Tomorrw
A2	Design A Nation
A3	We're Together
A4	Think Twice Arranged By – Sigidi
B1	Makin' It Arranged By – Harvey Mason
B2	Rock And Roll Again
B3	You Are The World
B4	I Love The Girl Arranged By – Fonce Mizell

Companies, etc.

• Pressed By – Artisan Sound Recorders
• Produced For – Sky High Productions, Inc.
• Mastered At – The Mastering Lab
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – United Artists Music And Records Group, Inc.
• Copyright (c) – United Artists Music And Records Group, Inc.
• Manufactured By – United Artists Music And Records Group, Inc.

Credits

• Alto Saxophone, Clarinet – Gary Bartz
• Arranged By [Background Vocal Arrangements] – Fred Perrin*
• Arranged By, Conductor [Conducted By] – Larry Mizell
• Artwork By [Cover Painting] – Greg Edwards
• Bass [Fender] – Chuck Rainey
• Clavinet, Trumpet, Arranged By [Background Vocal Arrangements] – Fonce Mizell
• Congas – Mayuto Correa
• Drums – Harvey Mason (tracks: Batah Drum & Mouth Harp on Makin' It)
• Engineer [Recording Engineer] – John Mills
• Engineer [Recording Engineer], Remix [Remix Engineer] – Dave Hassinger, Val Christian Garay*
• Executive-Producer – George Butler
• Guitar – David T. Walker, John Rowin, Rhonghea Southern (tracks: Think Twice)
• Percussion – Roger Sainte, Stephanie Spruill
• Photography By – Doug Metzler
• Piano [Acoustic], Organ – Jerry Peters
• Producer, Arranged By [Background Vocal Arrangements] – Larry Mizell
• Synthesizer [Arp], Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes] – Larry Mizell
• Trumpet [Solo], Flugelhorn, Solo Vocal – Donald Byrd
• Whistling – James Carter

Notes

Label variation, no 'Blue Note Records - A Division of United Artists' text on bottom of labels.

Artistic Consultant: Donald Byrd

Background vocal arrangements: Fonce Mizell, Fred Perrin & Larry Mizell

Technical Director: Chuck Davis

Recorded at The Sound Factory, Hollywood, Calif. November-December, 1974

Assistant: James Nipar

Sound Effects:
Breaking the sound barrier courtesy of Elektra Records
Synthesizers Consultant: Chuck Davis

Copyist: Sigidi

Cover Painting: Greg Edwards, "Facing The Music of The Spheres II"

Background Vocalists:
Fonce Mizell, Fred Perrin, Larry Mizell, Margie Evans (You Are The World), Stephanie Spruill (Stepping Into Tomorrow & Makin' It), Kay Haith (We're Together & Think Twice) & Lorraine Kennar (Stepping Into Tomorrow, Design & Makin' It)

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Runout, Etched, Side A): BNLA U̶A̶ ̶1̶A̶ 368-1 Re1 SET-4
• Matrix / Runout (Runout, Etched, Side B): BNLA U̶A̶ ̶L̶A̶ 368-2 Re1 SET-3
• Matrix / Runout (Runout, Stamped, Sides A & B): [Artisan logo]

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
BN-LA368-G	Donald Byrd	Stepping Into Tomorrow ‎(LP, Album, Ter)	Blue Note	BN-LA368-G	US	1975
BN-LA368-G	Donald Byrd	Stepping Into Tomorrow ‎(LP, Album)	Blue Note	BN-LA368-G	US	1975
BN-LA368-G	Donald Byrd	Stepping Into Tomorrow ‎(LP, Album, Club, CRC)	Blue Note	BN-LA368-G	US	1975
BN-LA368-G	Donald Byrd	Stepping Into Tomorrow ‎(LP, Album, Pit)	Blue Note	BN-LA368-G	US	1975
L35561	Donald Byrd	Stepping Into Tomorrow ‎(LP, Album)	Interfusion	L35561	New Zealand	1975

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