Steely Dan's Aja

Steely Dan's AjaCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780826427830 Format: Trade paperback (UK) Year: 2007 Publisher: Bloomsbury Description: Aja was the album that made Steely Dan a commercial force on the order of contemporaries like Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles and Chicago. A double platinum, Grammy winning bestseller, it lingered on the Billboard charts for more than a year and spawned three hit singles. Odd, then, that its creators saw it as an ambitious, extended work, the

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780826427830
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury


Description:
Aja was the album that made Steely Dan a commercial force on the order of contemporaries like Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles and Chicago. A double-platinum, Grammy-winning bestseller, it lingered on the Billboard charts for more than a year and spawned three hit singles. Odd, then, that its creators saw it as an ambitious, extended work, the antithesis of their anti-rock, anti-band, anti-glamour aesthetic.




Populated by thirty-five mostly jazz session players, Aja served up pre-war song forms, mixed meters and extended solos to a generation whose idea of pop daring was Paul letting Linda sing lead once in a while. And, impossibly, it sold. Including an in-depth interview with Donald Fagen, this book paints a detailed picture of the making of a masterpiece.