{"product_id":"herb-alpert-steppin-out-cd","title":"Herb Alpert - Steppin' Out [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eHerb Alpert's Steppin' Out finds the trumpet great in a supper-club mood, gathered here on CD in a digipak sleeve.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReleased in 2013, it arrived half a century after the Tijuana Brass first carried his horn onto radios around the world. Rather than chase whatever was fashionable, Alpert leaned into the great American songbook he grew up with, mixing standards with fresh material and sharing the microphone with his wife and longtime musical partner, Lani Hall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHall's warm, unhurried vocal on \"Puttin' on the Ritz\" sets the tone: playful, polished and never in a rush. \"La Vie En Rose\" gets a soft-focus treatment that lets Alpert's tone do the talking, while \"Skylark\" is played with real tenderness, every note given room to breathe. \"Green Lemonade\" brings a little fizz to the middle of the set, a reminder that this is a musician who has always enjoyed himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen there's the closer. \"The Lonely Bull,\" the tune that launched his career, returns in a fresh arrangement, and hearing a veteran revisit his first hit with this much grace is quietly moving.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor anyone who loves elegant instrumental pop, late-night jazz standards or simply the sound of a trumpet played with a smile, Steppin' Out is a gentle, sophisticated hour from an artist still finding new things to say.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57518463090993,"sku":"814647021034","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/2026\/7313\/files\/Herb_Alpert-Steppin_Out_CD.jpg?v=1794678851","url":"https:\/\/vinyl.com\/products\/herb-alpert-steppin-out-cd","provider":"Vinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}