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Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings Of Miles Davis 1963-1964 (Box Set) (CD)

By: Miles Davis (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings Of Miles Davis 1963-1964 (Box Set) (CD) Album By Miles Davis (Artist)
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 Nights  
 
DISC 2 for Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings Of Miles Davis 1963-1964 (Box Set) (CD) Album By Miles Davis (Artist)
1   Seven Steps To Heaven - (previously unreleased, rehearsal take)  
2   Seven Steps To Heaven  
3   So Near, So Far  
4   Joshua  
5   Introduction By Andre Francis  
6   Autumn Leaves  
7   Milestones  
8   I Thought About You  
 
DISC 3 for Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings Of Miles Davis 1963-1964 (Box Set) (CD) Album By Miles Davis (Artist)
1   Joshua  
2   All Of You  
3   Walkin'  
4   Bye Bye Blackbird - (previously unreleased)  
5   Bye Bye (Theme) - (previously unreleased)  
 
DISC 4 for Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings Of Miles Davis 1963-1964 (Box Set) (CD) Album By Miles Davis (Artist)
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 & Announcement)  
 
DISC 5 for Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings Of Miles Davis 1963-1964 (Box Set) (CD) Album By Miles Davis (Artist)
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 & Re-introduction)  
 
DISC 6 for Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings Of Miles Davis 1963-1964 (Box Set) (CD) Album By Miles Davis (Artist)
1   Introduction By Teruo Isono  
2   If I Were A Bell  
3   My Funny Valentine  
4   So What  
5   Walkin'  
6   All Of You  
7   Go-Go (Theme)  
 
DISC 7 for Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings Of Miles Davis 1963-1964 (Box Set) (CD) Album By Miles Davis (Artist)
1   Milestones  
2   Autumn Leaves  
3   So What  
4   Stella By Starlight - (previously unreleased)  
5   Walkin'  
6   Go-Go (Theme)  
 

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Review

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."

Title Note

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); George Coleman , Sam Rivers, Wayne Shorter (tenor saxophone); Herbie Hancock, Victor Feldman (piano); Ron Carter (double bass); Frank Butler, Tony Williams (drums).

Liner Note Authors: Michael Cuscuna; Bob Blumenthal.

Recording information: Columbia Studios, Los Angeles, California (04/16/1963 - 04/17/1963); Columbia 30th Street Studios, New York, New York (05/14/1963); Festival Mondial Du Jazz Antibes, Juan Les-Pin, France (07/27/1963); Philharmonic Hall, New York, New York (02/12/1964); Kohseinenkin Hall, Tokyo, Japan (07/14/1964); Philharmonie, Berlin, West Germany (09/25/1964).

All tracks have been digitally mastered using 24-bit technology.

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.

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