Smokin‘ in the Pit is a critically acclaimed double live album by the jazz fusion supergroup Steps (later known as Steps Ahead). Recorded over three nights in December 1979 at the “Six Pit Inn” in Tokyo, Japan, the album captures the band’s high-energy acoustic-fusion style. Tracks Disc 1 1 Tee Bag (Mike Mainieri) 13:49 […]
Modern Times is the third studio album by the American jazz group Steps Ahead, released on Elektra/Musician in 1984. Tracks 1 Safari (Michael Brecker) 6:58 2 Oops (Mike Mainieri) 6:20 3 Self Portrait (Mike Mainieri) 6:02 4 Modern Times (Warren Bernhardt) 6:17 5 Radio-Active (Warren Bernhardt, Craig Peyton) 8:49 6 Now You Know (Peter Erskine) […]
Steps Ahead is the second studio album by American jazz group Steps Ahead, released on Elektra/Musician in 1983. The group had previously released three albums, two live albums and one studio album under the name Steps on Nippon Columbia. Tracks 1 Pools (Don Grolnick) 11:17 2 I slands (Mike Mainieri) 06:27 3 Loxodrome (Eddie […]
Step by Step is the first studio album by the jazz group Steps (later changed to Steps Ahead) released on Nippon Columbia in Japan in 1981. The band arose out of spontaneous sessions at Seventh Avenue South, a jazz club in New York City owned by saxophonist Michael Brecker and trumpeter brother Randy Brecker. Tracks […]
Magnetic is an album by American jazz-fusion group Steps Ahead (originally known simply as Steps), brainchild of vibraphonist Mike Mainieri. Magnetic is the last Steps Ahead recording to feature Michael Brecker. The album finds the band exploring the use of electronic instruments and synthesis. Michael Brecker’s use of the Akai E.W.I. (electronic wind instrument) is astonishing. Tracks […]