MEDIUM HYBRID SACD
CONDITION sealed
CD CASE M mint
BOOKLET M mint
SERIAL NUMBER No
LIMITED Yes
MISCELLANEOUS playable on all CD Players, Stereo
MUSICIANS HOMEPAGE --
Donald Fagen - lead vocals, synthesizer ( tracks 1 - 3 & 5 - 7), police whistle (track 2), background vocals (track 2, 5, 7)
Walter Becker - bass (track 3), guitar (track 2), guitar solos (track 5, 6, 7)
Victor Feldman - electric piano (track 1, 3, 7), vibraphone (track 5, 6), piano (track 5, 6), percussion (track 2, 4)
Joe Sample - electric piano (track 2), clavinet (track 1)
Paul Griffin - electric piano (track 4), background vocals (track 4)
Michael Omartian - piano (track 2)
Don Grolnick - clavinet (track 4)
Larry Carlton - guitar (track 1, 2, 3, 5, 7), guitar solo (track 6)
Denny Dias - guitar (track 2)
Dean Parks - guitar (track 6, 7)
Lee Ritenour - guitar (track 3)
Steve Khan - guitar (track 4)
Jay Graydon - solo guitar (track 4)
Chuck Rainey - bass (track 1,2,4,5,6,7)
Paul Humphrey - drums (track 1)
Steve Gadd - drums (track 2)
Bernard Purdie - drums (track 3, 5)
Rick Marotta - drums (track 4)
Ed Greene - drums (track 6)
Jim Keltner - drums (track 7), percussion (track 7)
Gary Coleman - percussion (track 4)
Tom Scott - tenor sax (track 1), lyricon (track 4), horn arrangements
Wayne Shorter - tenor sax (track 2)
Pete Christlieb - tenor sax (track 3)
Michael McDonald - background vocals (track 4, 6)
Timothy B. Schmit - background vocals (track 2, 5, 7)
Clydie King - background vocals (track 1, 3, 6)
Sherlie Matthews - background vocals (track 1, 3, 6)
Venetta Fields - background vocals (track 1, 3, 6)
Rebecca Louis - background vocals (track 1, 6)
black cow - 5:10
aja - 8:00
deacon blues - 7:40
peg - 3:57
home at last - 5:37
i got the news - 5:11
josie - 4:40
Hardly any hi-fi show in the 70s and 80s could do without 'Aja', the perfection of the recording can be heard in every note
The band's best-selling album won a Grammy for best engineering, and the top five songs "Deacon Blues" and "Peg" went platinum and still resonate today
Not for nothing did Rolling Stone rank Aja 67th on their list of the 500 greatest albums of all time; the album's sophisticated blend of rock, jazz and fusion music is impressively multi-layered and was recorded and produced with a lot of (Steely Dan-typical) attention to detail
The remastering was done by Bernie Grundman
Many well-known session musicians are featured alongside the regular line-up, including Joe Sample, Larry Carlton, Wayne Shorter, Steve Gadd and Lee Ritenour
RECORDING Late 1976 - July 1977 at Village Recorder, Los Angeles; Producer's Workshop, Hollywood; Sound Labs, Hollywood; Warner Bros., Burbank; ABC, Los Angeles and A&R, New York City
ENGINEERING Roger Nichols, Elliot Scheiner, Bill Schnee, Al Schmitt
LABEL ABC
RE MASTERING Bernie Grundman
RE RELEASED 2024
AVERAGE RATING 4.89 Stars out of 5
MADE IN USA
STYLE Jazz Rock / Yacht Rock / Pop / White Soul
AVAILABLE as long as inventory stock
