Seven Steps To Heaven
by Miles Davis

Seven Steps To Heaven by Miles Davis
Year: 1963
Release date: 1963-07-15
Overall rank: 6,974th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 73 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1963 (25th)
Award Top albums of of the 1960s (526th)
Award Best albums of all time (6,974th)

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Miles Davis bestography

Seven Steps To Heaven is ranked 28th best out of 127 albums by Miles Davis on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Miles Davis is Kind Of Blue which is ranked number 35 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 20,883.

Miles Davis album bestography « Higher ranked (6,222nd)
Big Fun
This album (6,974th)
Seven Steps To Heaven
Lower ranked (7,600th) »
Tutu

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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Seven Steps To Heaven rankings summary
Overall rank: 6,974th | 1960s rank: 526th | 1963 rank: 25th  Overall chart history
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76/100 (from 73 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.5/100, a mean average of 77.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.2.


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#1 for the magnificent quintet. Cool and groundbreaking. FIne collection of modern jazz
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