Steely Dan's Aja leonard cohen ” —Sarah Liss

” —Sarah Liss

one of the foremost authorities on jazz and culture in America

but also examines as a disturbing undercurrent the volatile issue of race in twentieth-century music

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It shows up in genres ranging from electronic and rock music to jazz and lo-fi beats

Steely Dan's Aja leonard cohen ” —Sarah LissAuthor: Don Breithaupt 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 apotheosis of their anti rock, anti band, anti glamour aesthetic. Populated by thirty fi ve