Steely Dan's Aja

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9.99
book_author_name: 
Don Breithaupt
book_type: 
Paperback
publisher: 
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
published_date: 
15/07/2007
isbn: 
9780826427830
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Books > Entertainment > Music > Music theory
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Don Breithaupt|Paperback|Bloomsbury Publishing PLC|15/07/2007
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9780826427830
Book 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.

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