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Year 2009

 

Rate Video: Do it again Steely Gan Cover By The Jim Townsend Blues BandVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Wed, Apr 15

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By rss@youtube.com (jimbojjaxon) Author: jimbojjaxon Keywords: musiuc Blues Jazz Steely Dan Jim Townsend Band with Screaming JImmy Added: April 15, 2009

Rate Video: Gino Vannelli, Feel Like Flying - Solo Jazz Guitar by Jake ...

Original at Veoh external link    Fri, Mar 13

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Gino Vannelli, Feel Like Flying - Solo Jazz Guitar by Jake ReichbartWhat are your top 10 LPs of all time? Mine include Gaucho by Steely Dan, IOU ... www.veoh.com

Rate Video: Steely Dan - Kid Charlemagne Guitar CoverVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Sun, Dec 21

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By rss@youtube.com (TheFwanksta) This is me playing the rhythm and lead parts for Steely Dan's Kid Charlemagne. Sorry for the mess up at the end... Author: TheFwanksta Keywords: Kid Charlemagne Guitar Cover Steely Dan Larry Carlton Jazz Rock Solo Added: December 21, 2008

Rate Video: Mike Nikou Trio - Home at Last (cover of Steely Dan song)Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Tue, Nov 18

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By rss@youtube.com (mnik1978) recorded live @ The Jade Monkey in Adelaide, South Australia, Oct 08. This is a cover of the Steely Dan song 'home at last' from the 'Aja' album. Author: mnik1978 Keywords: blues jazz rock steely dan Added: November 18, 2008

Rate Video: STEELY DAN Limbo Jazz...Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Thu, Nov 13

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By rss@youtube.com (wasntborntofollow) from the album "Marian McPartland Piano Jazz Radio Broadcast Series" (2005), devoted to the so important duo of Becker & Fagen. Author: wasntborntofollow Keywords: steely dan walter becker donald fagen marian mcpartland jazz limbo Added: November 13, 2008

Rate Video: Green Earrings by Steely Dan performed by Ryan SpringstonVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Sat, Nov 1

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By rss@youtube.com (rhyneaux9333) Donald Fagen is a hero of mine with all of the insane chordings he and Walter come up with. This is my attempt at a tough song of theirs. Author: rhyneaux9333 Keywords: Green Earrings/Ryan Springston jazz Added: November 1, 2008

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Original at YouTube external link    Tue, Oct 14

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By rss@youtube.com (drhey19) Love Is Like An Ichin' In My Heart a Supremes' song done by Steely Dan as part of their Think Fast 2008 Tour. Sorry but this is only the audio. Enjoy! Keywords: jazz pop r&b soul rock blues Steely Dan Love Is Like An Ichin' In My Heart 2008 Think Fast Supremes' Fagen Becker Intros

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Original at YouTube external link    Sun, Oct 5

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By rss@youtube.com (danack) This is a track from "Tales Out of Night School," the third album of jazz/soul-infused indie music from New York native Dan Ackerman. Mixing styles and influences from Gil Scott-Heron and Roy Ayers to Beck and Steely Dan, the album is available on iTunes or wherever music is sold online.

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Original at Google Video external link    Thu, Sep 25

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Pioneering pop/jazz band Steely Dan, formed by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker in the early 70’s, had already secured five US Top 40 albums before the release of Aja in 1977. Aja, however, was to prove to be the biggest selling album of Steely Dan’s illustrious career, reaching Number 3 in th...

Rate Video: Steely Dan Live at Ottawa Bluesfest 2008Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Sat, Sep 20

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By rss@youtube.com (bernandoes) little clip I caught from my camera of Steely Dan and the Ottawa Bluesfest 2008. I was about 4th row from the stage. Keith Carlock...amazing Author: bernandoes Keywords: keitch carlock donald fagen walter becker steely dan jazz freddie washington Added: September 20, 2008

Stories

Year 2009

 

Rate Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic (JVC Japan LP) 24-bit/96 kHz Vinyl Rip

Original at AvaxHome external link    Thu, Aug 13

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By Dr. Robert Pretzel Logic is the third studio album by the American jazz-rock band Steely Dan, originally released in 1974. The album's opening song, "Rikki Don't Lose That Number", became the band's biggest hit, reaching #4 on the charts soon after the release of the album. The album itself went gold...

Rate CONTRACTION - Contraction (1972)

Original at Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website external link    Tue, Jul 7

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Pixieland comes across as a Steely Dan throwaway without the hired hand guitar virtuosos that the Dan employed on their albums. Most of the rest , well ... if I may ... the best that I can say is to imagine Karen Carpenter fronting a 70s soft rock outfit with that era's mediocre jazz rock noodlings.

Rate STEELY DAN - A Decade of Steely Dan (1985)

Original at Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website external link    Sun, Jun 14

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Last but not least a nice soul/funky jazz track "Peg" with a good rhythm and a excellent rhythm section and features guest vocalist Michael McDonald. STEELY DAN Music Online: recommended progarchives.com worldwide prog rock stores More about STEELY DAN at Progarchives.com

Rate Do It Again

Original at topix.net external link    Fri, Jun 12

Steely Dan, that rock band with the jazz fetish and obtuse yet hip lyrics, resumed touring in 1993 -- 13 years after disbanding and 19 years after last performing concerts.

Rate Steely Dan tour adds four shows at the Beacon Theatre

Original at Ticket News external link    Tue, Jun 9

 CT Steely Dan's jazz influenced "Aja" will be revivified on July 28 and August 3, and "The Royal Scram" on July 31 and August 10. "Gaucho" will only be performed on July 29. August 1, 4 and 11 shows are keyed to internet requests from ticket holders to ...

Rate STEELY DAN - Gaucho (1980)

Original at Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website external link    Tue, Jun 9

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Probably my reaction about 'Gaucho' songs (taken one by one) it is not good but the final result sound good in my head. Sure 'Gaucho' is not the correct album for Steely Dan newbies. But if you love Jazz POP 'Gaucho' is a perfect album. More about STEELY DAN at Progarchives.com

Rate Steely Dan Brings 'Rent Party '09 Tour' To Sound Board At Motor ...

Original at Broadway World external link    Fri, May 29

 NY MotorCity Casino Hotel is proud to announce Steely Dan "Rent Party '09 Tour", at Sound Board on Saturday, September 5th at 8:00pm. Steely Dan is a jazz-rock band centered on core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. The band reached a peak of ...

Rate Steely Dan Headed for Hub Residency

Original at Boston Globe external link    Wed, May 27

Steely Dan is coming to Boston and the famed jazz-rockers are going to set a spell. In the course of their upcoming "Rent Party '09" tour, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen are doing a series of special set list residencies in four cities and Boston is ... Steely Dan's Rent Party Pollstar

Rate Some Sing with Swing

Original at PopMatters external link    Thu, May 14

 IL Because East of Angel Town sounds like it emerges from some Pre-Steely Dan version of the '70s, where big pop-production is somehow leached of rock's power and rock's sense of transgression or playfulness. Neither elastic and thrilling like jazz nor ...

Rate New Rock Band DLC

Original at Virgin.net external link    Mon, May 11

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The jazz-infused rock sound of Steely Dan makes its first Rock Band Music Store appearance with Black Friday from 1975's Katy Lied and My Old School from 1973's Countdown to Ecstasy. Steely Dan's notoriously difficult Bodhisattva is featured on the ...

Rate Weekly Rock Band Downloadable Content (Week 20 2009)

Original at TeamXbox external link    Fri, May 8

 CA The jazz-infused rock sound of Steely Dan makes its first Rock Band Music Store appearance with “Black Friday” from 1975's Katy Lied and “My Old School” from 1973's Countdown to Ecstasy. Steely Dan's notoriously difficult “Bodhisattva” is featured on ...

Rate The Randy Brecker Quintet at the Jazz Bakery, May 6-9

Original at Jazz Police external link    Sun, May 3    2 related articles

 MN His trumpet and flugelhorn performances have graced hundreds of albums by a wide range of artists from James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, Chaka Khan, George Benson and Parliament-Funkadelics to Frank Sinatra, Steely Dan, David Sanborn, Horace Silver, ...

Rate UMBRIA JAZZ, DAL 10 AL 19 LUGLIO OLTRE 500 ARTISTI - AGI

Original at Agenzia Giornalistica Italia external link    Wed, Apr 29

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E poi ancora, a seguire, gli 'Steely Dan', gruppo fondato sul nucleo storico composto dal duo Donald Fagen, voce e tastiere e Walter Becker alla chitarra e basso. Sonorita' pop-soul dalla Gran Bretagna per Mick Hucknall ei suoi Simply Red che, ... Umbria Jazz 09 QuotidianoViaggi

Rate SAGA - Saga (1978)

Original at Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website external link    Sat, Apr 25

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Tired World, if one took out Sadler’s vocals, starts out as if it were a track from Steely Dan’s Gaucho. An album where the Dan lost the soul in its’ music and sounded cold more than cool. With Saga & Sadler, it has not the hipster attraction of a tossed off Fagen lyric, nor some jazz history o...

Rate Steely Dan ready for summer 'Party'

Original at topix.net external link    Thu, Apr 23    4 related articles

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The veteran jazz-rockers currently are scheduled kick off the jaunt June 9 in Durham, NC, followed by five stops throughout Florida before wrapping up Aug.

Rate Chris Potter's Underground Surfaces for a Wild Week in the West

Original at Jazz Police external link    Sat, Apr 11

 MN Chris also performed on Steely Dan’s Grammy-nominated, gold album Two Against Nature, touring with them in 1994, which also resulted in the live CD, Alive in America. Potter received his own Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Jazz Solo for his ...

Rate Lauryn Hill, Herbie Hancock, Black Eyed Peas Top Montreux Jazz ...

Original at Billboard external link    Wed, Apr 8

 NY Rock groups Steely Dan and the Dave Matthews Band will lead all-American celebrations on July 4. British pianist and jazz singer Jamie Cullum performs in Miles Davis Hall on July 7. Nobs, noting that Cullum had played at Montreux four or five years ago ...

Rate Prince’s new album has you parting like its 1985

Original at Arab Times external link    Sat, Apr 4

 Kuwait Other strong tracks include the conscious funk of “Colonized Mind,” which evokes Gil Scott-Heron; “Love Like Jazz,” which could be an eroticized Steely Dan tune circa “The Royal Scam”; and “Feel Good, Feel Better, Feel Wonderful,” with James Brown ...

Rate Opinion: STEELY DAN - Gaucho (1980)

Original at Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website external link    Fri, Apr 3

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In this album, versus many of the band's previous albums, Steely Dan seems to blend the jazz, pop, funk, and synth-ish prog rock flavors of their music less effectively. It seems like I'm always hearing one or two of those combined, rather than a cohesive combination of all at once as it was i...

Rate BB King, Hancock, Black Eyed Peas booked at Montreux

Original at calgaryherald.com external link    Fri, Apr 3

  Canada Rock groups Steely Dan and the Dave Matthews Band will lead all-American celebrations on July 4. British pianist and jazz singer Jamie Cullum performs in Miles Davis Hall on July 7. Nobs, noting that Cullum had played at Montreux four or five years ago ...

Rate BB King, Hancock, Black Eyed Peas booked at Montreux

Original at Washington Post external link    Thu, Apr 2

 United States Rock groups Steely Dan and the Dave Matthews Band will lead all-American celebrations on July 4. British pianist and jazz singer Jamie Cullum performs in Miles Davis Hall on July 7. Nobs, noting that Cullum had played at Montreux four or five years ago ...

Rate Head to Perth and you’ll find something to please everyone

Original at The Herald external link    Wed, Apr 1

 UK The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, led by saxophonist Tommy Smith, brings its superb, and rarely heard, programme of the music of Steely Dan, which covers three decades of the work of Messrs Becker and Fagen in arrangements by Fred Sturm. ...

Rate Top 5 Covers

Original at Stuff.co.nz external link    Thu, Mar 12

 New Zealand The Mountain Goats, FM (Steely Dan): I love hearing John Darnielle's warped bleat and frenzied acoustic strum; it's the antithesis of Steely Dan's slick jazz-rock. 4. Calexico, Alone Again Or (Love): This is that other kind of cover; ...

Rate Brandon Burrows Is On The Move Chasing His Dreams

Original at Top40-Charts.com external link    Thu, Mar 12

 NY Players recruited included keyboardist Rob Whitlock (The Jazz Crusaders), bassist Anthony Jackson (Steely Dan, Madonna), bassist Will Lee (David Letterman's Late Show Band, Sting), guitarist Chuck Loeb (Kirk Whalum, Metro), bassist Alex Al (Herbie ...

Rate Steely Dan reelin’ in the fans

Original at Shropshire Star external link    Mon, Mar 9

 UK Steely Dan, centred on the core members of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, reached its peak of popularity in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock, funk, R&B, and pop, with hits including Reelin’ In The Years, ...

Rate UMBRIA JAZZ '09: AL VIA PREVENDITE ON LINE - AGI

Original at Agenzia Giornalistica Italia external link    Mon, Mar 9

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Ed ancora, gli Steely Dan, noti per l'inconfondibile e inclassificabile fusione di jazz, rock, funk,country e blues centrato sul nucleo storico composto dal duo Walter Becker (chitarra e basso) e Donald Fagen (voce e tastiere). ...

Rate Austin's Great Jazz Hope

Original at Austin 360 external link    Fri, Mar 6

 TX It cost much more to mix the album than record it, but Lovejoy and Edmonson agreed it was worth it to hire the legendary Al Schmidt, who mixed most of Sam Cooke's classics and "Aja" by Steely Dan. As a bonus, Edmonson also got a pretty impressive ...

Rate UW-Green Bay jazz ensembles featured in March 11 concert

Original at UWGB external link    Fri, Feb 27

 Wisconsin Lose You,” arranged by Kirk Marcy, which is a swing tune that has a section for scat solos and a fun vocal soli section; and “Confide In Me,” arranged by Jennifer Barnes, which is a bluesy shuffle written by Donald Fagen of the band Steely Dan. ...

Rate Steely Dan (featuring Wayne Shorter): Aja

Original at Jazz.com external link    Thu, Jan 22

 TX - Steely Dan's claim to fame is high-minded jazz-rock presented in a radio-ready format. "Aja," the title cut from their blockbuster 1977 album, ...

Rate Customer Futures, Elephant Talk, SpeechStorm, Cloud9 in the U.K., CampSoftware

Original at blog.tmcnet.com external link    Tue, Dec 9

The news as of the first coffee this morning, and the music is The Horace Silver Quintet's album "Song for My Father." Not sure what you'd call this, bossa nova jazz, or jazz with strong melody lines and cool piano, jazz that sounds like actual songs as opposed to meandering noodling, the alb...

Rate Jazz News: Dave Brogan:thunderbird Sun Transformation

Original at All About Jazz external link    Tue, Nov 25

Not an easy mood to capture in song but Brogan does the job and then adds creamy icing with a fab jam ending in the vein of Steely Dan circa The Royal Scam. A Southern boy named Robinson once noted, “There's a passion in being alone," ...

Rate Resurgent Steely Dan still a treat in concert

Original at Attleboro Sun Chronicle external link    Sun, Nov 23

 MA - The 1970s innovative jazz fusion group that has at its core keyboardist/vocalist Donald Fagen and guitarist Walter Becker performed Friday night at the MGM ...

Rate Your worst favorite band sucks | MetaFilter

Original at MetaFilter external link    Mon, Nov 17

That I think Steely Dan is largely bullshit isn't because of they were coked out of their gourds recording Aja, but because their music never really connects with me in a way that I want to return to—their cod-jazz just doesn't excite ...

Rate Abu Dhabi Jazz Festival 2008 - openPR

Original at openPR external link    Mon, Nov 3

Abu Dhabi Jazz Festival 2008 press release), Germany - Marwan with his style strongly influenced by David Gilmour, Steely Dan and many other classic rock musicians, is a guitarist and singer and has been ...

Rate Aja from Steely Dan | Guitar Licks

Original at Tricia's Musings external link    Mon, Sep 1

By Chris The name of the song/album from Steely Dan titled Aja, is from a Korean women. I’m not sure if I told you all before but some of my earliest exposure to Jazz guitar influences was from this fabulous band, Steely Dan and I owe a lot to ...

Year 2007

 

Rate Interview: Band Of The Week - Sam Yahel

Original at Blogcritics external link    Sun, Jul 1

By Pico There are a lot of mainstream artists I admire. I love a lot of Paul Simon's compositions, Steely Dan, Prince, and all the ones which seem to be almost cliché for jazz musicians to like these days (Joni Mitchell, the Beatles, Nick Drake, etc). Additionally I am also influenced by a lot of class...

Rate Summer Shed Preview: June

Original at DCist external link    Wed, Jun 6

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By Graham Hough-Cornwell gt;>Venerable quasi-jazz-rockers Steely Dan make their Wolftrap debut this Thursday, June 7, on the final leg of their "Heavy Rollers Tour." They're ostensibly touring in support of the upcoming greatest hits collection, The Best of Steely Dan, due out October 2. 8 p.m. $50/35 (lawn).

Rate Music Review: Animal Liberation Orchestra - Roses & Clover

Original at Blogcritics external link    Sun, May 6

By El Bicho Animal Liberation Orchestra’s Roses & Clover plays as sweet as the name proclaims with its gentle blend of rock, jazz, and rhythm and blues-- prepare yourself for a journey. With melodies and harmonies reflective of the sounds of the ‘70s and lyrics that echo the feelings of today, AL...

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