- jazz, hard bop
- 46 min
- 6 tracks
- Columbia
Seven Steps to Heaven is a studio album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released on July 15, 1963, by Columbia Records. The recording sessions took place at Columbia Studios in Los Angeles on April 16 and 17, 1963, and at Columbia's 30th Street Studios in Manhattan on May 14, 1963.
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Character
Grave, character-led, spare and earnest.
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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- AllMusic4.5/5 ★
- DownBeat<br />(Original release)5/5 ★
- DownBeat (1992)3.5/5 ★
- The Encyclopedia of Popular Music3/5 ★
- MusicHound Jazz3.5/5 ★
- The Penguin Guide to Jazz3/4 ★
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide4/5 ★
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Tracks
- A1Basin Street Blues10:33
- A2Seven Steps to Heaven6:26
- A3I Fall in Love Too Easily6:49
- B1So Near, So Far7:02
- B2Baby Won't You Please Come Home8:30
- B3Joshua7:01
6 tracks, 46 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Miles Davis
- Label
- Columbia
- Released
- 1963
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- US
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