Steely Dan - Aja
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Actor: Steely DanBrand: RED DISTRIBUTION
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 60 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-10-03
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Eagle Rock Ent
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Summary: 4 Stars
Some 30 years after it was released - which is several lifetimes in pop culture - The pristine production and technically-pleasing performances on Aja continue to stand the test of time.
Walter Becker and Donald Fagan take the viewer through the long and oftentimes quite complicated creation of the classic album, which reached the lofty top five status in the U.S. and England, with the cool jazz-fusion delivering the signature numbers - Deacon Blues, Peg and Josie - while selling more 20 million copies worldwide.
Initially airing as part of the VH-1 Classic Albums series, the insight of Becker and Fagan is bolstered by interviews with producer Gary Katz and a several of the musicians who performed in the sessions.
In 1978, the album won the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Non-Classical Recording. There is no better way to find out what makes Aja so perfect.
Summary of Steely Dan - Aja
This profile of Steely Dan's elegant 1977 masterpiece, Aja, is a feast for Dan fans, a thoughtful, satisfyingly detailed assessment of the album and its bejeweled fusion of jazz, R&B, rock, and pop. Better yet, the documentary's producers elicit atypically straightforward, revealing interviews from the group's stealthy principals, songwriters Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, who jettison enough of their signature sarcasm to touch on the autobiographical threads, cultural anomie, and serious musical ambition audible in their work. In that respect, the production rivals any extant interviews with this proudly cerebral, occasionally evasive musical team.The duo, along with producer Gary Katz, engineer Roger Nichols, and a generous cross-section of the crack New York and Los Angeles musicians featured on the sessions, dissect the sleek layers of the songs both musically and lyrically, both in modern performances featuring the original players and in control-room playbacks of the original multitrack master tapes. Becker and Fagen prove articulate, self-aware, and dryly funny subjects, and the subtlety and richness of the music offer an ample canvas for discovery. --Sam Sutherland
Pioneering pop/jazz band Steely Dan formed by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker in the early 70 s had already secured five U.S 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 the U.S. Billboard chart spending a year in the Top 40 there and also reaching number 5 in the U.K.Aja was the first British Top 10 hit for Steely Dan and was also the first album by Becker and Fagen as a duo. Becker and Fagen renowned for their relentless perfectionism in the recording studio recall the history of an album that was a year in the making but rewarded by a prestigious Grammy Award ? and three major hit singles Peg Deacon Blues and Josie. Michael McDonald later of the Doobie Brothers who did guest backing vocals on Aja the late British musician Ian Dury record producer Gary Katz and the legendary session musicians who worked on Aja also contribute to this fascinating documentary.Steely Dan s Aja has proved to be one of the most outstanding jazz-rock albums in the history of popular music. This is a vivid portrait of a 70 s record that is still as fresh and as memorable more than two decades after its release a true Classic Album.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: MUSIC DVD/CONCERTS Rating: NR UPC: 801213016891 Manufacturer No: EV30168-9
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