Seven Steps to Heaven

‘Seven Steps to Heaven’ is the eighth studio album by jazz legend Miles Davis, released in 1963 It presents the Miles Davis Quintet in transition introducing the rhythm section of Herbie Hancock (piano), Ron Carter (bass) and Tony Williams (drums), who would become Davis’ regular sidemen for the next five years. Upon release, the album was Davis’ most successful on the Billboard pop LPs charts. It is also introducing two future classics, as Miles and company tear through “Joshua” and “Seven Steps to Heaven” and set the world on notice that life in the music world would never be the same again.