The City – Now That Everything’s Been Said
A classic audiophile record, Steely Dan’s Aja (along with many of their other albums) is often used as the gold standard to test the quality of hi-fi audio equipment. It’s no surprise the album won the grammy for best engineered album in 1977. We’d listen to Aja on just about any system though, and were actually reminded to put this up in the collection after hearing “Peg” on a pair of basic PA’s at an outdoor wedding… Real magic captured in the studio with some of the best musicians to ever do it including Bernard “Pretty” Purdie, Chuck Rainey, Wayne Shorter, Joe Sample, Michael McDonald, and many others, the album is an essential listen and will surely be enjoyed by new generations of music lovers for many decades to come.
Recommended – Full Listen
Tags: Essential Listening
Tracklist:
A1 Black Cow
A2 Aja
A3 Deacon Blues
B1 Peg
B2 Home At Last
B3 I Got The News
B4 Josie
Credits:
Arranged By [Horns], Conductor [Horns] – Tom Scott
Arranged By [Rhythm Charts Prepared By] – Dean Parks, Larry Carlton, Michael Omartian
Art Direction – OZ Studios
Brass – Chuck Findley, Lou McCreary*, Slyde Hyde
Composed By, Words By, Music By – Donald Fagen, Walter Becker
Consultant [Sound Consultant] – Stuart Dawson*
Coordinator [Covert Operations] – Karen Stanley
Coordinator [Production Coordinator] – Barbara Miller (2)
Design – Geoff Westen, Patricia Mitsui
Engineer – Al Schmitt, Bill Schnee, Elliot Scheiner, Roger Nichols
Engineer [Assistants] – Ed Rack, Joe Bellamy, Ken Klinger, Lenise Bent, Linda Tyler, Ron Pangaliman
Engineer [Executive] – Roger Nichols
Lead Vocals – Donald Fagen
Liner Notes – Michael Phalen, Steve Diener
Management [Bagman] – Leonard Freedman
Management [Protection] – Irving Azoff
Mastered By – Bernie Grundman
Other [Hemiolas, Hockets, Maneries Of Garlandia, Etc.] – Andrew Frank (2)
Photography By [Cover] – Hideki Fujii
Photography By [Inside Photos] – Dorothy A. White*, Walter Becker
Producer – Gary Katz
Saxophone [Saxes], Flute – Bill Perkins, Jackie Kelso, Jim Horn, Pete Christlieb, Plas Johnson, Tom Scott, Wayne Shorter
