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Never a band per se, Steely Dan was actually a constellation of crack musicians that revolved around the core of Walter Becker, who played guitar and bass, and Donald Fagen, whose keyboards and reedy, world-weary vocals helped give Steely Dan its inimitable sound. The duo reached a stylistic apotheosis with the 1977 album Aja, a seamless amalgam of rock and jazz idioms that spawned the single Peg. Three years later, Becker and Fagen joined forces one last time for Gaucho, before, in Fagen's words, reaching "a dead...
...parting was amicable: Becker went off to produce a series of jazz records and Rickie Lee Jones' Flying Cowboys album; Fagen released 1982's The Nightfly, a consummately crafted solo effort that echoed with the bebop percolations of his East Coast adolescence. Then came an 11-year hiatus, which Fagen attributes to a serious bout of writer's block. "I was kind of depressed at the time," he explains. "And it took me a while to figure out what I wanted...
PRODUCTION: Joseph J. Scafidi (Deputy); Trang Ba Chuong, Theresa Kelliher, L. Rufino-Armstrong (Supervisors); Robert L. Becker, Silvia Castaneda Contreras, Michael Dohne, Osmar Escalona, Garry Hearne, Agustin Lamboy, Jeannine Laverty, Janet L. Lugo, Peter J. McGullam, Sandra Maupin, Michael Skinner...
...asked people to select professors and TFs who have inspired them in some ways, who have made learning worthwhile...who have made them go to class," said the council's academics committee Co-Chair Sean M. Becker...
...Becker said the award recipients were decided through a process using recommendations, CUE guide racings and word of mouth...