39 Steps

John Abercrombie Quartet - 39 Steps (2013) {ECM 2334}  Music

Posted by ruskaval at Jan. 22, 2021
John Abercrombie Quartet - 39 Steps (2013) {ECM 2334}

John Abercrombie Quartet - 39 Steps (2013) {ECM 2334}
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© 2013 ECM Records | ECM 2334
Jazz / Post Bop / Progressive Jazz / Guitar

There is an easy familiarity among the participants on the John Abercrombie Quartet's 39 Steps. Each of its members – guitarist, pianist Marc Copland, bassist Drew Gress, and drummer Joey Baron – have played together in various situations for decades. In the case of Abercrombie and Copland, their association goes back some 40 years to Chico Hamilton's touring group and the fusion band Dreams. Both Baron and Gress have played with the guitarist and pianist on and off since the '90s.

Steps - 5-6-7-8: The Collection (2015)  Music

Posted by Rtax at Aug. 14, 2023
Steps - 5-6-7-8: The Collection (2015)

Steps - 5-6-7-8: The Collection (2015)
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2:35:13 | Electronic, Pop, Europop, Ballad, Dance-pop | Label: Music Club Deluxe

2015 two CD collection. Steps were quite simply a phenomenon - one of the most successful pop acts of the 1990's. In 1999 their UK tour was the biggest pop arena tour ever staged, and in a period of four years they sold a remarkable 12 million records. The quintet - brought together by songwriters Barry Upton and Steve Crosby with manager Tim Byrne - was made up of three female vocalists and two male - Claire Richards, Faye Tozer, Lisa Scott-Lee, Ian "H" Watkins and Lee Latchford-Evans. After the debut single '5, 6, 7, 8' which peaked at #14, Steps hit the top 5 with 14 consecutive single releases - which at the time was a feat previously achieved only by the Beatles. This set includes the group's #1 hits 'Tragedy' and 'Stomp, all five #2 hits 'One For Sorrow', 'Better Best Forgotten', 'Love's Got A Hold Of My Heart' 'It's The Way You Make Me Feel', and 'Chain Reaction', and the other hits and more. Also included are a clutch of extended remixes, and Steps version of the all-time greatest Christmas single - Slade's 'Merry Christmas Everybody'.

Seven Steps To The Green Door - The? Lie (2019)  Music

Posted by delpotro at May 17, 2020
Seven Steps To The Green Door - The? Lie (2019)

Seven Steps To The Green Door - The? Lie (2019)
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Progressive Rock | Label: Progressive Promotion Records

Seminal progressive crossover band "seven steps to the green door" from Germany is back with the new album "THE?LIE" -and surprise us with the second part of their concept trilogy "THE?BOOK", in which authors and band deal critically with religious fanaticism.

Steps Ahead - Holding Together: Live in Europe 1999 (2002) 2CDs  Music

Posted by Designol at Dec. 2, 2022
Steps Ahead - Holding Together: Live in Europe 1999 (2002) 2CDs

Steps Ahead - Holding Together: Live in Europe 1999 (2002) 2CDs
Mike Mainieri - Bob Berg - Eliane Elias - Marc Johnson - Peter Erskine

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Fusion, Post-Bop, Contemporary Jazz | Label: NYC Music | # NYC 6033-2 | Time: 02:03:21

In the summer of 1999, Steps Ahead founder/vibraphonist Mike Mainieri joined Eliane Elias, Bob Berg, Marc Johnson and Peter Erskine for a reunion tour of Europe. They recorded several of those shows but Mainieri didn’t listen to the tapes for two years. He eventually did, and the result is the two-CD set Holding Together (N.Y.C.). The musicians perform the tunes with great sensitivity to one another, both as an ensemble and in solo spotlights. “Uncle Bob” just swings along, while Mainieri’s gliding vibes impart an almost magical quality to a lovely version of Ellington’s “In a Sentimental Mood,” and “The Time Is Now” is a 22-minute-plus opus that gives everyone a chance to shine. There are too many high points on this solid set to mention, but it should be noted that Berg’s playing is vigorous and inventive throughout and provides a poignant reminder of the profound loss the jazz world suffered when he was killed in a car accident.

Steps - Platinum Collection (2022) {Deluxe Edition}  Music

Posted by popsakov at Jan. 27, 2023
Steps - Platinum Collection (2022) {Deluxe Edition}

Steps - Platinum Collection (2022) {Deluxe Edition}
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Pop, Dance | Sony Music / Fascination #19658704702

Platinum Collection is the third greatest hits album released by pop group Steps. The album was released on 19 August 2022 through Sony Music Entertainment. The album is to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the group's formation back in 1997. The album features Steps' greatest hits along with two brand new songs; "Hard 2 Forget", and "The Runner".

John Coltrane - Giant Steps (1960) {1987, Reissue}  Music

Posted by popsakov at May 24, 2020
John Coltrane - Giant Steps (1960) {1987, Reissue}

John Coltrane - Giant Steps (1960) {1987, Reissue}
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Jazz, Hard Bop | Atlantic #1311-2 / 781 337-2 | US

History will undoubtedly enshrine this disc as a watershed the likes of which may never truly be appreciated. Giant Steps bore the double-edged sword of furthering the cause of the music as well as delivering it to an increasingly mainstream audience. Although this was John Coltrane's debut for Atlantic, he was concurrently performing and recording with Miles Davis. Within the space of less than three weeks, Coltrane would complete his work with Davis and company on another genre-defining disc, Kind of Blue, before commencing his efforts on this one. Coltrane (tenor sax) is flanked by essentially two different trios. Recording commenced in early May of 1959 with a pair of sessions that featured Tommy Flanagan (piano) and Art Taylor (drums), as well as Paul Chambers – who was the only bandmember other than Coltrane to have performed on every date.

Steps - Stomp All Night: The Remix Anthology (2016)  Music

Posted by delpotro at April 18, 2018
Steps - Stomp All Night: The Remix Anthology (2016)

Steps - Stomp All Night: The Remix Anthology (2016)
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Pop, Electronic, Dance, Female Vocal | Label: Edsel Records

A record-breaking pop phenomenon, Steps have always been dedicated to the dance floor. This remastered 3CD anthology brings together no less than 37 full-length mixes of their classic hits, including Tragedy, One For Sorrow, Deeper Shade Of Blue and many more. Alongside sought-after mixes from Almighty, Xenomania, Sleazesisters, Tony Moran and PWL’s Work In Progress team, an exclusive new Matt Pop remix of Say You’ll Be Mine takes Steps right back to their Hit Factory roots.

Chucho Valdés - Chucho's Steps (2010) {World Village}  Music

Posted by tiburon at Oct. 12, 2018
Chucho Valdés - Chucho's Steps (2010) {World Village}

Chucho Valdés - Chucho's Steps (2010) {World Village}
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Genre: Latin Jazz

Veteran Cuban jazz pianist Chucho Valdes pays tribute to many of his mentors and peers on Chucho's Steps. The first hint of his intention comes with the instrumentation of a sextet also featuring Juan Carlos de Castro Rojo Blanco on drums, Lazaro Rivero Alarcуn on bass, Yaroldy Abreu on percussion, Carlos Miyares Hernandez on tenor saxophone, and Reynaldo Melian Alvarez on trumpet.
Dizzy Gillespie - Dizzy Digs Paris (1953) {2CD Set Giant Steps GSCR 016 rel 2006}

Dizzy Gillespie - Dizzy Digs Paris (1953) {2CD Set Giant Steps GSCR 016 rel 2006}
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© 1953, 2006 Giant Steps | GSCR 016
Jazz / Mainstream Jazz / Bop / Trumpet

On February 9, 1953, Dizzy Gillespie played a live concert at the Salle Pleyel in Paris that was recorded, though when excerpts were first released, there were only enough used to fill one 10" LP. This two-disc set not only includes the entire 84-minute show (which actually fills just over one disc) for the first time on CD, it also adds 16 studio tracks that Gillespie cut in Paris that same month, as well as eight Gillespie-less studio tracks (also done in Paris in February 1953) by three of his sidemen, working under the name the Wade Legge Trio. It's the live Salle Pleyel set that's the main feature, presented here, according to the liner notes, in an "unedited remastered version of that evening's events with a number of butchered solos fully restored plus the addition of [alto and baritone saxophonist] Bill Graham's previously discarded showcase "'I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance,'" for which Dizzy made a rare appearance on piano."
Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon - Sixty Six Steps (2005) {RCA Victor 82876 68909-2}

Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon - Sixty Six Steps (2005) {RCA Victor 82876 68909-2}
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© 2005 RCA Victor | 82876 68909-2
Finger-Picked Guitar / Progressive Folk / Americana / Contemporary Folk / New Acoustic

The second collaboration of Leo Kottke with ex-Phish bassist Mike Gordon finds the duo exploring breezy Caribbean sounds, with a few surprise covers. The musicians work wonderfully together, with Gordon's meaty yet malleable bass grounding and darting around Kottke's distinctive and agile fingerpicked lines. Percussion reinforces the island sound (the album was recorded at the famous Compass Point Studios in Nassau) and provides a terrific backbone for the album's tropical approach. Neither Gordon nor Kottke have great (or even good) voices – the bassist's is particularly thin – but they admirably dig into the songs, singing on about half of the tracks with a charming, easygoing quality that suits the material and shows they are enjoying this ride.