Miles Davis - Seven Steps to Heaven
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Artist: Miles DavisBrand: Sony
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2005-03-15
Music Label: Columbia Records
Soundtracks:
- Basin Street Blues
- Seven Steps to Heaven
- I Fall in Love Too Easily
- So Near, So Far
- Baby Won't You Please Come Home
- Joshua
- So Near, So Far [*]
- Summer Night [*]
Music reviews of Seven Steps to Heaven
Music Review: Seven Steps To Miles
Rating: 5 Stars
Upon reading the autobiography Miles I was more than a little bit interested to hear this album,particularly the presense of George Coleman in the band. If you read that book you'll discover how Coleman left the group and was suceeded by Wayne Shorter very shortly thereafter. That was far from the only change that Miles was making to his band,the very same who would become his famous 60's quintet. What makes this album so historically AND musically fascinating is that Victor Feldman and drummer Frank Butler were transitioning out of the band as Herbie Hancock and Tony Williams were working their way in. And if you ask me there is no better way to bring about the birth of a band than with music like this. "Basin Street Blues" isn't lying when you hear Miles,Victor,Ron and Frank lay down some of the leanest,meanest blues licks you'll find in early 60's jazz. Also you can hear some changes in the way Miles is playing:his horn playing is moving from his heavy on easy style into a sound that I suppose is an early form of "freebop" where the tough beauty of his playing starts to get just a little louder than one might expect. The title track is of course of of Miles classic but you could call it the first full introduction to Miles's 60's quintet as Miles,George,Herbie,Ron, and Tony really give this free swinging number a big workout. Wayne isn't onboard yet but,despite what some might think George Coleman was a guy who could sure have done really big things with Miles had he not left so soon:his solo on this tune is one of it's big highlites. "I Fall In Love Too Easily" is a great rhythmic calypso rhythm that actually owes a lot to the influence of Sonny Rollins and Dizzy Gillespie in a lot of ways. The rest of the album is really good too but that's where things get slightly murkey. "So Near,So Far","Baby Won't You Please Come Home","Joshua" and the bonus cut "Summer Night" all have the effect of being excellent musically but not only don't they represent anything Miles hadn't done before but they aren't among his more memorable songs. Maybe it's because of that predictability that this happens. Miles apparently has similar feelings because he apparently didn't have much more of a high opinion of this than he did for Quiet Nights which as of this writing I have yet to hear. Not long after this Miles' New Quartet would emmerge with E.S.P. and change the face of jazz yet again. So this has several excellent cuts and ones that are merely good. Opinions might vary in this area but regardless this is great for the Miles fan but,if your just getting into his music this is probably not the place to begin doing that.
Description of Seven Steps to Heaven
By early 1963, Miles Davis was still casting for a new band and this recording accurately reflects Miles' search for his "new sound." Seven Steps to Heaven is the product of two separate sessions recorded during this transition. Davis already had bass player Ron Carter on board. After pianist Victor Feldman, who played on half the set, declined the job Davis enlisted the young Herbie Hancock to fill the seat. The even younger Tony Williams, just seventeen, joined on drums for the second round of sessions. Finally, tenor saxophonist George Coleman, though included on this entire recording, would soon be replaced by Wayne Shorter completing one of the most important quintets in jazz history. For a project borne out of transition, this is a very strong album that moves along seamlessly. More than forty years on, the title track remains intoxicatingly fresh, and all the more so with the warmth and clarity of this stellar remastering. --David GreenbergerGeneral CDs
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