Seven Steps to Heaven
Seven Steps to Heaven | ||||
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Columbia 30th Street (New York City) | ||||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 46:08 | |||
Label | Columbia CL 2051 CS 8851 | |||
Producer | Teo Macero | |||
Miles Davis chronology | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [5] |
MusicHound Jazz | 3.5/5[6] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz | [7] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [8] |
Tom Hull | B[9] |
Seven Steps to Heaven is the eighth studio album on
Background
After the unfinished sessions for
With club dates to fulfill, Davis hired several musicians to fill in:
Music
The assembled group at the April
The uptempo numbers from New York in May include Feldman's "Joshua", which remained in the Davis performance book for the rest of the decade. This is the last of Davis' studio albums with standards rather than band originals; they were gone by the time the quintet made its last personnel change, Wayne Shorter replacing Coleman in late 1964.
On March 15, 2005,
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Basin Street Blues" | Spencer Williams | 10:29 |
2. | "Seven Steps to Heaven" | Victor Feldman, Miles Davis | 6:26 |
3. | "I Fall in Love Too Easily" | Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn | 6:46 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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4. | "So Near, So Far" | Tony Crombie, Benny Green | 6:59 |
5. | "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" | Clarence Williams, Charles Warfield | 8:28 |
6. | "Joshua" | Victor Feldman | 7:00 |
- Sides one and two were combined as tracks 1–6 on CD reissues.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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7. | "So Near, So Far" (alternative version) | Tony Crombie, Benny Green | 5:11 |
8. | "Summer Night" | Harry Warren, Al Dubin | 6:02 |
Personnel
Tracks 1, 3, 5, 7 & 8 – recorded in Hollywood on April 16 or 17, 1963
- Miles Davis – trumpet
- George Coleman – tenor saxophone
- Victor Feldman – piano
- Ron Carter – bass
- Frank Butler – drums
Tracks 2, 4 & 6 – recorded in New York on May 14, 1963
- Miles Davis – trumpet
- George Coleman – tenor saxophone
- Herbie Hancock – piano
- Ron Carter – bass
- Tony Williams – drums[21]
References
- ^ Miles Davis.com
- Down Beat:September 12, 1963 Vol. 30, No.25
- ^ Allmusic review
- ISBN 142343076X.
- ISBN 0857125958.
- ISBN 0825672538.
- ISBN 0-14-015364-0.
- ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
- ^ Hull, Tom (n.d.). "Jazz (1940s-50s)". tomhull.com. Retrieved March 3, 2020.
- ISBN 978-0-19-532266-8, p. 140.
- ^ Bob Belden. Seven Steps to Heaven. Columbia/Legacy CK 93592, 2005, liner notes p. 10.
- ^ Cook, p. 142.
- ^ Cook, p. 145.
- ^ Belden, liner notes, p. 10
- ^ Cook, p. 146.
- ^ Belden, liner notes p. 12.
- ^ Belden, liner notes p. 12.
- ^ Cook, pp. 148-49.
- ^ Cook, pp. 146-149.
- ^ Jazz Standard website retrieved 8 August 2011
- ^ Liner notes to Columbia CL 2051