Steps Ahead

Steps Ahead is a group Jazz founded by Mike Mainieri and whose albums strongly marked the history of the Jazz-rock'n'roll fusion, would be this only because some their discs met a great success well beyond the usual public of the jazz. The list of the members of Steps Ahead is fluctuating except for its producer and founder Mike Mainieri.

Discography

(with the list of the members of the group for each disc)

Smokin' in the pit (1980)

Step by step (1980)

Paradox (1981)

  • Mike Mainieri
  • Michael Brecker
  • Don Grolnick
  • Eddie Gum
  • Peter Erskine

Steps Ahead (1983)

Modern Times (1984)

Magnetic (1986)

Live In Tokyo (1986)

N.Y.C. (1989)

  • Mike Mainieri
  • Bendik
  • Steve Khan
  • Tony Levin
  • Steve Smith
  • Ray Gum
  • Rique Pantoja
  • Stephen Barber
  • Bruce Martin

Yin-Yang (1992)

  • Mike Mainieri
  • Bendik
  • Rachel Z.
  • Jeff Andrews
  • Steve Smith
  • Jimi Tunnel
  • Steve Khan
  • Wayne Krantz
  • Chuck Loeb
  • Victor Bailey
Rick Margitza George Whitty
  • Dean Brown
  • Bruce Martin

Vibe (1995)

  • Mike Mainieri
  • Rachel Z.
  • Victor Bailey
  • Danny McCaslin
  • Michael Cain
  • Clarence PEN
  • Tim Hagans
  • Aaron Heick
  • James Genus
  • Adam Holzman
  • Reggie Washington

Holding Together (2002)

  • Mike Mainieri
  • Bob Berg
  • Eliane Elias
  • Marc Johnson
  • Peter Erskine

Videotex

  • LazerDisc
    • Tokyo 86
  • DVD
    • Copenhagen 83
    • Tokyo 86

External bond

  • Official site

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