Seven Steps
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Album: Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings 1963-1964 [Box]
# Song Title   Time
1)    Joshua - (previously unreleased)
2)    I Fall in Love Too Easily
3)    Baby Won't You Please Come Home
4)    So Near, So Far
5)    Basin Street Blues
6)    Seven Steps to Heaven - (previously unreleased, Take 3)
7)    Seven Steps to Heaven - (previously unreleased, Take 5)
8)    Summer Night
1)    Seven Steps to Heaven - (previously unreleased, Rehearsal Take, rehearsal take)
2)    Seven Steps to Heaven
3)    So Near, So Far
4)    Joshua
5)    Introduction by Andre Francis - (previously unreleased, live)
6)    Autumn Leaves - (live)
7)    Milestones - (live)
8)    I Thought About You - (live)
1)    Joshua - (live)
2)    All of You - (live)
3)    Walkin' - (live)
4)    Bye Bye Blackbird - (previously unreleased, live)
5)    Bye Bye (Theme) - (previously unreleased, live)
1)    Introduction by Mort Fega
2)    Autumn Leaves - (previously unreleased)
3)    So What
4)    Stella by Starlight
5)    Walkin'
6)    All of You
7)    Go-Go (Theme and Announcement)
1)    Introduction by Billy Taylor
2)    All Blues
3)    My Funny Valentine
4)    Joshua
5)    I Thought About You
6)    Four
7)    Seven Steps to Heaven
8)    There Is No Greater Love
9)    Go-Go (Theme and Re-Introduction)
1)    Introduction by Teruo Isono - (live)
2)    If I Were a Bell - (live)
3)    My Funny Valentine - (live)
4)    So What - (live)
5)    Walkin' - (live)
6)    All of You - (live)
7)    Go-Go (Theme) - (live)
1)    Milestones - (live)
2)    Autumn Leaves - (live)
3)    So What - (live)
4)    Stella by Starlight - (previously unreleased, live)
5)    Walkin' - (live)
6)    Go-Go (Theme) - (live)
 

Album: Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings 1963-1964 [Box]
# Song Title   Time
1)    Joshua - (previously unreleased)
2)    I Fall in Love Too Easily
3)    Baby Won't You Please Come Home
4)    So Near, So Far
5)    Basin Street Blues
6)    Seven Steps to Heaven - (previously unreleased, Take 3)
7)    Seven Steps to Heaven - (previously unreleased, Take 5)
8)    Summer Night
1)    Seven Steps to Heaven - (previously unreleased, Rehearsal Take, rehearsal take)
2)    Seven Steps to Heaven
3)    So Near, So Far
4)    Joshua
5)    Introduction by Andre Francis - (previously unreleased, live)
6)    Autumn Leaves - (live)
7)    Milestones - (live)
8)    I Thought About You - (live)
1)    Joshua - (live)
2)    All of You - (live)
3)    Walkin' - (live)
4)    Bye Bye Blackbird - (previously unreleased, live)
5)    Bye Bye (Theme) - (previously unreleased, live)
1)    Introduction by Mort Fega
2)    Autumn Leaves - (previously unreleased)
3)    So What
4)    Stella by Starlight
5)    Walkin'
6)    All of You
7)    Go-Go (Theme and Announcement)
1)    Introduction by Billy Taylor
2)    All Blues
3)    My Funny Valentine
4)    Joshua
5)    I Thought About You
6)    Four
7)    Seven Steps to Heaven
8)    There Is No Greater Love
9)    Go-Go (Theme and Re-Introduction)
1)    Introduction by Teruo Isono - (live)
2)    If I Were a Bell - (live)
3)    My Funny Valentine - (live)
4)    So What - (live)
5)    Walkin' - (live)
6)    All of You - (live)
7)    Go-Go (Theme) - (live)
1)    Milestones - (live)
2)    Autumn Leaves - (live)
3)    So What - (live)
4)    Stella by Starlight - (previously unreleased, live)
5)    Walkin' - (live)
6)    Go-Go (Theme) - (live)
 
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Performer Notes
  • Initial pressings of SEVEN STEPS are packaged with a deluxe metal spine.
  • Also includes a 92-page booklet with rare photos, complete discography and essays by Michael Cuscuna and Bob Blumenthal.
  • Personnel: Miles Davis (trumpet); Miles Davis; Ron Carter (double bass); Tony Ruption Williams , Tony Williams (drums); George Coleman, Sam Rivers, Wayne Shorter (tenor saxophone); Victor Feldman, Herbie Hancock (piano); Frank Butler (drums).
  • Audio Remixer: Mark Wilder.
  • Liner Note Authors: Michael Cuscuna; Bob Blumenthal.
  • Recording information: Berlin Philharmonic Hall, Berlin, Germany (04/16/1963-09/19/1964); Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York, NY (04/16/1963-09/19/1964); Columbia Studios, LA (04/16/1963-09/19/1964); Kohseinenkin Hall, Tokyo, Japan (04/16/1963-09/19/1964); Philharmonic Hall, New York, NY (04/16/1963-09/19/1964); The Festival Mondial Du Jazz Antibes, Juan-Les-Pins, Fr (04/16/1963-09/19/1964).
  • All tracks have been digitally mastered using 24-bit technology.
  • Introduction bys: Billy Taylor ; Andr‚ Francis; Terry Isono; Mort Fega.
  • Photographers: Vernon Smith; John Wilkes; Ted Williams ; Joe Alper; Jan Persson; Roger Marshutz; Lee Tanner; Chuck Stewart.
  • In the 1960s, trumpeter Miles Davis became a star outside of the jazz world, first with what history refers to as "the Quintet" with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock, then with his highly influential post-BITCHES BREW electric bands. But there was a "transitional" period, after John Coltrane left Davis's employ and before the Shorter/Hancock era, which the SEVEN STEPS box set based around the SEVEN STEPS TO HEAVEN album documents in its entirety, often in a live context.
  • Davis was seeking the right combination of musicians for his sonic flights, where hard-bop and modal styles could be combined with a wide-open, increasingly elastic sound. Before settling on Shorter (present here), he tried the conventionally hearty, blues-accented bop approach of saxophonist George Coleman and the rippling, somewhat more avant-garde Sam Rivers. Both soar and sear at their respective best, providing remarkable contrast to Davis's magically cool horn. UK-born pianist Victor Feldman plays on some tracks, Hancock on others; the drum chair features Tony Williams (also an explorer of avant expression) and Frank Butler (a crackling, swinging mainstream bopper). SEVEN STEPS includes material originally available on the early-'60s albums IN EUROPE and FOUR & MORE, among others, with (attention, collectors!) the inclusion of eight previously unreleased tracks.
Professional Reviews
Uncut (p.159) - 4 stars out of 5 - "These seven CDs see him build on the pensive, spacious, elegant style he'd developed with players like John Coltrane and Bill Evans."

Magnet (p.134) - "[The recording] provides insight into how the trumpeter brought his genre-transforming creativity to a boil."

The Wire (p.66) - "These are almost entirely live recordings, and the contrast with the quintet with Coltrane is striking..."

Down Beat (p.83) - 4 1/2 stars out of 5 - "[The box set] documents trumpeter Davis' ongoing steps away from the studio, as he wrestled with time-tested standards, searched for ideas and tried on different players in the process."

Mojo (Publisher) (p.128) - 5 stars out of 5 - "After it, jazz was never the same again."
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