# Steps Up

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1981 studio album by Eddie Harris Quartet

Steps Up Studio album by Eddie Harris Quartet Released 1981 Recorded February 20, 1981 Studio Sweet Silence Studios, Copenhagen Denmark Genre Jazz Length 51:11 Label SteepleChase SCS 1151 Producer Nils Winther Eddie Harris chronology Sounds Incredible (1980) Steps Up (1981) The Real Electrifying Eddie Harris (1982)

***Steps Up*** is an album by saxophonist [Eddie Harris](/source/Eddie_Harris) recorded in 1981 and released on the Danish label, [SteepleChase](/source/SteepleChase_Records).[1][2][3][4]

Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating AllMusic [5]

## Track listing

All compositions by Eddie Harris except where noted

1. "Steps Up" – 5:13

1. "Scandia Skies" ([Kenny Dorham](/source/Kenny_Dorham)) – 5:25

1. "Misty Thursday" ([Duke Jordan](/source/Duke_Jordan)) – 5:08

1. "Freedom Jazz Dance" – 9:45

1. "Encirclement" – 8:46

1. "If I Did – Would You?" (Jordan) – 6:45

1. "Blues at SteepleChase" – 9:56

1. "Scandia Skies #2" (Dorham) – 5:40 Additional track on CD

## Personnel

- [Eddie Harris](/source/Eddie_Harris) – [tenor saxophone](/source/Tenor_saxophone)

- [Tete Montoliu](/source/Tete_Montoliu) – [piano](/source/Piano)

- [Bo Stief](/source/Bo_Stief) – [bass](/source/Double_bass)

- Norman Fearrington – [drums](/source/Drum_kit)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [SteepleChase Records discography](http://www.jazzlists.com/SJ_Label_Steeplechase_1100.htm), accessed June 19, 2017

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Tete Montoliu discography](http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Montoliu/tete-disc.php), accessed June 19, 2017

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [SteepleChase Productions ApS](http://steeplechase.dk/wordpress/eddie-harris-steps-up-sccd-31151/), accessed June 19, 2017

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Eddie Harris Discography](http://www.eddieharris.com/#discography), accessed June 22, 2017

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Allmusic_5-0)** [Eddie Harris Quartet: *Steps Up* – Listing](https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000185117) at [AllMusic](/source/AllMusic_(identifier)). Retrieved June 19, 2017.

v t e Eddie Harris Studio albums Exodus to Jazz (1961) Mighty Like a Rose (1961) Jazz for "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1961) A Study in Jazz (1962) Eddie Harris Goes to the Movies (1962) Bossa Nova (1963) For Bird and Bags (1964) Cool Sax, Warm Heart (1964) Here Comes the Judge (1964) Cool Sax from Hollywood to Broadway (1965) The In Sound (1965) Mean Greens (1966) The Tender Storm (1967) The Electrifying Eddie Harris (1968) Plug Me In (1968) Silver Cycles (1968) Free Speech (1969) Come On Down! (1970) Second Movement (1971) Instant Death (1971) Eddie Harris Sings the Blues (1972) Excursions (1973) E.H. in the U.K. (1974) Is It In (1974) I Need Some Money (1974) Bad Luck Is All I Have (1975) That Is Why You're Overweight (1975) The Reason Why I'm Talking S--t 1976 (1975) How Can You Live Like That? (1976) I'm Tired of Driving (1978) Playin' with Myself (1979) Sounds Incredible (1980) Steps Up (1981) The Real Electrifying Eddie Harris (1982) Live albums High Voltage (1969) Swiss Movement (1969) Live at Newpoart (1970) Soundtrack albums Pourquoi L'Amérique (1968) Soul to Soul (1971)

v t e Tete Montoliu Years given are for the recording(s), not first release. As leader or co-leader A Tot Jazz (1965) A Tot Jazz/2 (1965) Tete Montoliu Presenta Elia Fleta (1966) Piano for Nuria (1968) Body & Soul (1971) Lush Life (1971) Songs for Love (1971) That's All (1971) Catalonian Fire (1974) Music for Perla (1974) Tete! (1974) Tête à Tete (1976) Tootie's Tempo (1976) Words of Love (1976) Blues for Myself (1977) Boleros (1977) Catalonian Folksongs (1977) Meditation (with George Coleman, 1977) Secret Love (1977) Yellow Dolphin Street (1977) Live at the Keystone Corner (1979) Lunch in L.A. (1979) Boston Concert (1980) I Wanna Talk About You (1980) Catalonian Nights Vol. 1 (1980) Catalonian Nights Vol. 2 (1980) Catalonian Nights Vol. 3 (1980) Face to Face (with Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, 1982) Carmina (1984) The Music I Like to Play Vol. 1 (1986) The Music I Like to Play Vol. 2 (1986) The Music I Like to Play Vol. 3 (1990) The Music I Like to Play Vol. 4 (1990) The Man from Barcelona (1990) A Spanish Treasure (1991) Catalonian Rhapsody (1992) With Dexter Gordon Billie's Bounce (1964) Cheese Cake (1964) I Want More (1964) It's You or No One (1964) King Neptune (1964) Love for Sale (1964) Bouncin' with Dex (1975) With others In the Tradition (with Anthony Braxton, 1974) In the Tradition Volume 2 (with Anthony Braxton, 1974) Steps Up (with Eddie Harris, 1981) Dog Years in the Fourth Ring (1963) Kirk in Copenhagen (with Roland Kirk, 1963) The House I Live In (wih Archie Shepp & Lars Gullin, 1963)

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