Miles Davis - Seven Steps to Heaven
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Artist: Miles DavisEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2005-03-15
Music Label: Sony
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
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Hit: 5 Stars
In 1963, the Kelly/Chambers/Cobb rhythm section packed up and left, leaving Miles Davis without a band. Despite being at an age when most musicians would rather sit on their laurels and play on some giants of jazz tour, he decided to assemble a new working band. This CD shows that assembly in progress. The three ballads were recorded in LA with George Coleman (tenor sax), Victor Feldman (piano), Ron Carter (bass), and Frank Butler (drums). "Basin Street Blues" is very different from Louis Armstrong's version -- Davis's trumpet playing is much sadder, merging abstraction and the blues. The ballads are lovely, but the real treasures in the set are the three tunes recorded one month later with Carter, Coleman, and two younger musicians: pianist Herbie Hancock and drumming prodigy Tony Williams. Williams, only 17 years old here, generates an incredible level of excitement on "Joshua" and the title track. These may be the most exciting up-tempo tracks Davis had recorded since "Two Bass Hit" and "Straight, No Chaser".
While most of the excitement surrounds the brilliant young rhythm section, George Coleman's playing here is outstanding. While I am a huge Wayne Shorter fan, dismissing Coleman would be a huge oversight. The quintet with Coleman, Hancock, Carter and Williams would soon evolve into one of the trumpeter's greatest groups, and this is where they got started.
The two bonus tracks are a mixed bag. "Summer Night" is a beautiful ballad performance, but the alternate "So Near So Far" is from the LA session with Feldman and doesn't even come close to the one recorded with Hancock/Carter/Williams.
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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 GreenbergerJazz Music CDs
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