Artist: Steps Ahead
Title: Discography
Year Of Release: 1980-2002
Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Fusion
Quality: MP3 320 kbps
Total Time: 11 albums
Total Size: 1,57 Gb
WebSite: Album Preview
Steps Ahead (originally known as Steps) is a jazz fusion group and the brainchild of vibraphonist Mike Mainieri. According to the liner notes of the group's 1983 debut album (for worldwide release), entitled Steps Ahead, "Steps began as a part-time venture in 1979 at Seventh Avenue South, a New York City nightclub." The group began releasing recordings in Japan as far back as 1980.
The first line-up of Steps in the period 1979-1981, as can be read on the live album Smokin' in the Pit, consisted of Michael Brecker (tenor sax), Steve Gadd (drums), Eddie Gómez (bass), Don Grolnick (piano), Mike Mainieri (vibraphone), and special guest Kazumi Watanabe (guitar). This double live album was recorded on 15 and 16 December 1979 at The Pit Inn Tokyo. A second studio recording was made on 17 December 1979, called Step by Step. Smokin' in the Pit was released in 1980 and awarded a gold record. The studio album Step by Step was released shortly after, followed in the summer of 1980 by another live recording called Paradox. These three albums (see Mike Mainieri's notes in the booklet of the 1999 cd release of Smokin' in the Pit) were the only albums released by the group under the name of Steps. In 1982 they learned that the name Steps had been trademarked by a band in North Carolina, and therefore changed their name to Steps Ahead.
The line-up for the Steps Ahead album consisted of Mainieri, Michael Brecker (tenor sax), Eliane Elias (piano), Peter Erskine (drums), and Eddie Gómez (bass).
The group's members has also included Dennis Chambers, Warren Bernhardt, Rachel Z, Donny McCaslin, Chuck Loeb, Victor Bailey, Tony Levin, Bob Berg, Darryl Jones, Mike Stern, Richard Bona, and many others.
Brecker and Mainieri are featured on the Dire Straits album Brothers in Arms. For rock listeners, the albums Steps Ahead and Modern Times (1984, with Bernhardt replacing Elias in the main line-up, and other guest musicians appearing in limited roles) are a great bridge into a kind of jazz that is energetic and powerful. Reflecting the cooperative, ensemble nature of the band, the Modern Times album included compositions by Mainieri, Brecker, Erskine, and Bernhardt.
According to the website NYC Records, which include's Mainieri's biographical sketch and touring schedule with Steps Ahead, the 2007 instantiation of Steps Ahead includes: Mainieri (vibes), Bill Evans (sax; not to be confused with the jazz pianist also named Bill Evans), Bryan Baker (guitar), Anthony Jackson (bass), and Steve Smith (drums), a former member of the rock group Journey. On some stops of the tour, Etienne Mbappe is listed as filling in for Jackson.
ALBUMS:
1980 - Smokin' In The Pit [CBR.320]
1980 - Step By Step [CBR.320]
1981 - Paradox [CBR.320]
1983 - Steps Ahead [CBR.320]
1984 - Modern Times [CBR.320]
1986 - Live in Tokyo [CBR.320]
1986 - Magnetic [CBR.320]
1989 - N.Y.C [CBR.320]
1992 - Yin-Yang [CBR.320]
1995 - Vibe [CBR.320]
2002 - Holding Together [CBR.320]
1980 - Smokin' In The Pit [CBR.320]
DISC 1 (total time 46:16) :
1.Tee Bag (13:49) [Mike Mainieri]
2.Lover Man (8:31) [Jimmy Davis, Roger Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman]
3.Fawlty Tenors (10:05) [Don Grolnick]
4.Song To Seth (13:00) [Mike Mainieri]
DISC 2 (total time 53:52) :
1.Young And Fine (16:33) [Joe Zawinul]
2.Soul Eyes (12:14) [Mal Waldron]
3.Not Ethiopia (11:00) [Michael Brecker]
4.Sara's Touch (14:00) [Mike Mainieri]
1980 - Step By Step [CBR.320]
1Uncle Bob 25.19
2Kyoto 15.94
3Belle 17.91
4Bullet Train 12.66
5Six Persimmons 4.1
1981 - Paradox [CBR.320]
1N L 4 20.07
2The Aleph 22.8
3Patch Of Blue 17.9
4Four Chords 24.91
5Take A Walk 27.33
6Nichka 5.51
1983 - Steps Ahead [CBR.320]
1.Pools (11:15) [Don Grolnick]
2.Islands (6:23) [Mike Mainieri]
3.Loxodrome (5:25) [Eddie Gomez]
4.Both Sides of the Coin (6:10) [Michael Brecker]
5.Skyward Bound (4:03) [Mike Mainieri]
6.Northern Cross (5:50) [Peter Erskine]
7.Trio (An Improvisation) (7:32) [Michael Brecker, Eddie Gomez, Mike Mainieri]
1984 - Modern Times [CBR.320]
1.Safari (6:58) [Michael Brecker]
2.OOPS (6:20) [Mike Mainieri]
3.Self Portrait (6:02) [Mike Mainieri]
4.Modern Times (6:17) [Warren Bernhardt]
5.Radio-Active (8:49) [Mike Mainieri]
6.Now You Know (6:25) [Peter Erskine]
7.Old Town (6:19) [Mike Mainieri]
1986 - Live in Tokyo [CBR.320]
1.Beirut (9:53) [V.Bailey, M.Brecker, P.Erskine, C.Loeb, M.Mainieri]
2.OOPS (8:47) [Mike Mainieri]
3.Self Portrait (7:30) [Mike Mainieri]
4.Sumo (9:01) [Michael Brecker]
5.Cajun (8:14) [Michael Brecker]
6.Safari (6:23) [Michael Brecker]
7.In a Sentimental Mood (4:26) [Duke Ellington]
8.Trains (9:32) [Mike Mainieri]
1986 - Magnetic [CBR.320]
1.Trains (7:31) [Mike Mainieri]
2.Beirut (8:15) [V.Bailey, M.Brecker, P.Erskine, C.Loeb, M.Mainieri]
3.Cajun (6:16) [Michael Brecker]
4.In a Sentimental Mood (3:30) [Duke Ellington]
5.Magnetic Love (5:33) [Mike Mainieri, Scott Martin]
6.Sumo (5:50) [Michael Brecker]
7.All the Tea in China (5:05) [Peter Erskine]
8.Something I Said (4:23) [Peter Erskine]
9.Reprise (Magnetic Love) (1:15) [Mike Mainieri, Scott Martin]
1989 - N.Y.C [CBR.320]
1.Well, In That Case... (5:08) [M.Mainieri, R.Gomez]
2.Lust For Life (4:16) [Bendik]
3.Senegal Calling (4:58) [M.Mainieri, B.Martin]
4.Red Neon. Go Or Give (2:48) [Bendik]
5.Charanga (5:02) [M.Mainieri]
6."Get It" (3:15) [M.Mainieri, R.Martin]
7.N.Y.C. (5:08) [M.Mainieri, B.Martin]
8.Stick Jam (4:54) [M.Mainieri, T.Levin, R.Gomez, S.Kahn, S.Smith, Bendik]
9.Absolutely Maybe (3:51) [Bendik]
10.Festival (5:08) [M.Mainieri, R.Gomez]
11.Paradiso (3:01) [Bendik]
1992 - Yin-Yang [CBR.320]
1.Sidewalk Maneuvers(4:49) [Mike Mainieri]
2.Praise (4:47) [Mike Mainieri]
3.Nite Owl (5:32) [Mike Mainieri]
4.Taxi (3:28) [Bendik]
5.Tamarin Lion (5:44) [R.Skår, Bendik]
6.Gory Details (4:55) [R.Nicolazzo, Mike Mainieri]
7.Agitate The Gravel (5:56) [Spencer Cozens, Miles Bould, Mike Mainieri]
8.Okapi (6:20) [Bendik]
9.Orion (4:38) [R.Nicolazzo, Mike Mainieri]
10.Steppish (7:57) [Mike Mainieri]
11.Saras Toush (6:33) [Mike Mainieri]
1995 - Vibe [CBR.320]
1.Buzz (4:45) [Mike Mainieri]
2.From Light to Light (5:30) [Mike Mainieri]
3.Penn Station (5:54) [Mike Mainieri, Donny McCaslin, Clarence Penn]
4.Vibe (5:06) [Mike Mainieri, Zachary Breaux]
5.Green Dolphin Street (6:06) [B.Kaper, C.Salinger, S.Stotajart S.Waxman]
6.Miles Away (6:31) [Mike Mainieri]
7.Staircase (5:59) [Mike Mainieri, Adam Holzman]
8.Rendezvous (6:59) [Mike Mainieri]
9.Crunch (3:13) [Mike Mainieri]
10.Waxing & Waning (6:19)
[M.Cain, A.Holzman, M.Mainieri, D.McCaslin, R.Nicolazzo, C.Penn]
11.Miles Away - Reprise (The Gentle Giant) (4:46) [Mike Mainieri]
2002 - Holding Together [CBR.320]
CD1
1Bowing to Bud (Elias) 11:13
2Copland (Mainieri) 10:52
3Autumn Rose (Erskine) 8:47
4Pools (Grolnick) 10:03
5All the Things You Are/Soul Eyes (Hammerstein/Kern) 15:55
6Uncle Bob (Grolnick) 10:02
CD2
1Dee Minor (Mainieri) 11:36
2The Time Is Now (Wlias) 22:35
3In a Sentimental Mood (Ellington) 14:48
4Friday Night at the Cadillac Clab (Berg) 7:33
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