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The Best of Seven Steps: The Complete Recordings 1963-1964 Miles Davis CD
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  • Artist: Miles Davis
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2005
  • UPC: 827969358528
  • Item Number: SNY935852
  • Release date: 03/15/2005
  • 1. Seven Steps to Heaven
  • 2. I Fall in Love Too Easily
  • 3. Autumn Leaves [Live]
  • 4. Stella by Starlight [Live]
  • 5. All Blues [Live]
  • 6. If I Were a Bell [Live]
  • 7. Walkin' [Live]
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The Best of Seven Steps: The Complete Recordings 1963-1964 by Miles Davis on CD


As a scaled down version of the box set Seven Steps: The Complete Recordings 1963-1964, this best-of is a fine if somewhat disappointing compilation of one of trumpeter Miles Davis' oft-overlooked periods. It was during this time that Davis along with pianists Victor Feldman and Herbie Hancock, saxophonists George Coleman, Sam Rivers, and Wayne Shorter, bassist Ron Carter, and drummers Frank Butler and Tony Williams created some of his most muscular, assured, and exciting recordings. Albeit, these cuts were not as influential as the ones collected on The Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-68: The Complete Columbia Studio and featuring saxophonist Wayne Shorter, but they are nonetheless important milestones in Davis' development. Included here are such iconic tracks as the title cut from this group's only studio album, Seven Steps to Heaven, an impressionistic version of "Autumn Leaves" culled off Miles Davis in Europe, and a swinging take on "If I Were a Bell" with boundary-pushing tenor saxophonist Sam Rivers off Miles in Tokyo. However, despite the high quality of music, at only seven tracks it seems like more of a sampler rather than a legitimate alternative for buyers who can't afford the box set. Further, these recordings are available on full-length reissues that longtime fans will no doubt prefer over this compilation. As such, The Best of Seven Steps: The Complete Recordings 1963-1964 remains a somewhat redundant package. ~ Matt Collar, All Music Guide
  • Artist: Miles Davis
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2005
  • UPC: 827969358528
  • Item Number: SNY935852
  • Release date: 03/15/2005
  • Label: Columbia/Legacy, Sony Music Distribution
  • Genre: Jazz
  • Style: Hard Bop, Jazz Instrument, Modal Music, Trumpet Jazz
  • Album Type: "Best of..." / "Greatest Hits", Live

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  • The Best of Seven Steps: The Complete Recordings 1963-1964 Miles Davis CD
The Best of Seven Steps: The Complete Recordings 1963-1964 Miles Davis CD