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Remastered edition of Steely Dan's 1977 masterpiece Aja, the audiophile's favourite: "Peg," "Deacon Blues," "Josie" and the title track.
Aja is Steely Dan's best-selling album and an audiophile benchmark, featuring nearly 40 of the best session players in LA. It won a Grammy for engineering and was added to the National Recording Registry. This edition is remastered.
By 1977 Walter Becker and Donald Fagen had stopped touring and turned Steely Dan into a studio project with an endless revolving door of jazz and session greats. For Aja they called in nearly 40 musicians, Wayne Shorter, Steve Gadd and Larry Carlton among them, trying out different players on each song until it was perfect.
The results are as smooth and sophisticated as rock records get: "Peg" and "Josie" are slinky hits, "Deacon Blues" is a gorgeous ode to losers and dreamers, and the eight-minute title track features Shorter's sax and Gadd's legendary drum solo. It peaked at No. 3 in the US, won the Grammy for Best Engineered Recording, and has been used to test hi-fi speakers ever since.
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Side A
1. Black Cow
2. Aja
3. Deacon Blues
Side B
1. Peg
2. Home at Last
3. I Got the News
4. Josie
On ABC / UMe, a remastered reissue of the 1977 album.
Info from Wikipedia.
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