Nature Magazine 28 July

Steppin' Out is the second studio album released by soprano saxophonist George Howard. It was first released as an LP record in 1984 by Palo Alto Records and reached as high as #9 on the Billboard magazine Top Jazz Albums list for that year. This CD from 1984 has lively and complex sax sounds. When Howard rejoined GRP Records in 1990, they acquired the rights to previous albums by him and released this album on compact disc in 1992.

Symphonic Prog band with strong classical influences. Many accoustic instruments are used, giving the band almost a chamber characteristic. The project started in 1990, Paolo Lucchina, Mose Nodari, Luigi Bonacina, Andrea Costanza, and Francesco Vedani were the original original line-up. After three years the Court were contacted by the indie label Music is Intelligence who proposed them to record their first studio album, "And You'll Follow the Winds' Rush 'Till Their Breath Dwells", in the Roxanne Studio in Stuttgart.
In 1997 the second album Distances was recorded near Frankfurt. The magazine Rockerilla commented "It seems that the four years passed from the previous realise have been devoted by the band to develop furthermore its technical and emotional capabilities…