Jazz Jambalaya \"Steely Dan - A Jazz Attitude\"

In a 1974 edition of Rolling Stone, Walter Becker - the bespectacled and bearded guitarist, bassist, composer, lyricist, and one-half of the legendary duo Steely Dan - said, “We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.”

Becker had a four-decade partnership with his co-collaborator, pianist, vocalist, and composer Donald Fagen. They were, to borrow a phrase used by Duke Ellington, “beyond category.” The source of Steel