Steps Up

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Steps Up
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Studio album by Eddie Harris Quartet
Released 1981
Recorded February 20, 1981
Studio Sweet Silence Studios, Copenhagen Denmark
Genre Jazz
Length51:11
Label SteepleChase
SCS 1151
Producer Nils Winther
Eddie Harris chronology
Sounds Incredible
(1980) Sounds Incredible1980		Steps Up
(1981)		 The Real Electrifying Eddie Harris
(1982) The Real Electrifying Eddie Harris1982

Steps Up is an album by saxophonist Eddie Harris recorded in 1981 and released on the Danish label, SteepleChase. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Eddie Harris American saxophonist

Eddie Harris was an American jazz musician, best known for playing tenor saxophone and for introducing the electrically amplified saxophone. He was also fluent on the electric piano and organ. His best-known compositions are "Freedom Jazz Dance", recorded and popularized by Miles Davis in 1966, and "Listen Here."

SteepleChase Records is a jazz record company and label based in Copenhagen, Denmark. SteepleChase was founded in 1972 by Nils Winther, who was a student at Copenhagen University at the time. He began recording performances at Jazzhus Montmartre, where many American expatriates played, and was given permission by some of the artists to release the material on record.

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Track listing

All compositions by Eddie Harris except where noted

  1. "Steps Up" – 5:13
  2. "Scandia Skies" (Kenny Dorham) – 5:25
  3. "Misty Thursday" (Duke Jordan) – 5:08
  4. "Freedom Jazz Dance" – 9:45
  5. "Encirclement" – 8:46
  6. "If I Did – Would You?" (Jordan) – 6:45
  7. "Blues at SteepleChase" – 9:56
  8. "Scandia Skies #2" (Dorham) – 5:40 Additional track on CD

Personnel

Tenor saxophone type of saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B♭ (while the Alto is pitched in the key of E♭), and written as a transposing instrument in the treble clef, sounding an octave and a major second lower than the written pitch. Modern tenor saxophones which have a high F♯ key have a range from A♭2 to E5 (concert) and are therefore pitched one octave below the soprano saxophone. People who play the tenor saxophone are known as "tenor saxophonists", "tenor sax players", or "saxophonists".

Tete Montoliu Spanish jazz musician and pianist (1933-1997)

Vicenç Montoliu i Massana, better known as Tete Montoliu was a jazz pianist from Catalonia, Spain. Born blind, he learnt Braille music at age seven. His styles varied from hard bop, through afro-cuban, world fusion, to post bop. He recorded with Lionel Hampton in 1956 and played with saxophonist Roland Kirk in 1963. He also worked with leading American jazz musicians who toured in, or relocated to Europe including Kenny Dorham, Dexter Gordon, Ben Webster, Lucky Thompson, and Anthony Braxton. Tete Montoliu recorded two albums in the US, and recorded for Enja and Soul Note in Europe.

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

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References

  1. ↑ SteepleChase Records discography, accessed June 19, 2017
  2. ↑ Tete Montoliu discography, accessed June 19, 2017
  3. ↑ SteepleChase Productions ApS, accessed June 19, 2017
  4. ↑ Eddie Harris Discography, accessed June 22, 2017
  5. ↑ Eddie Harris Quartet: Steps Up – Listing at AllMusic. Retrieved June 19, 2017.
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