Branford of course! My mind is not functioning properly anymore, now in my fourth and last week of paternity leave!!
I don’t know how or why, but suddenly there’s lots of folks (that are at least 10-20 years younger than myself, a mid-50’s dude) rightly singing the praises of Steely Dan, which made me go back and give Aja a listen, probably for the first time in 30 years or so.
It’s more or less perfect. Not a bad track on it, and every note is placed just so.
And it contains “Peg”, a song with a Marotta drum groove so infectious it rivals Pocarro on “Rosanna” and Gadd on “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover” (and Gadd has his own highlight, the solo / duet section on “Aja” w/ WAYNE SHORTER!)
link is to the whole album playlist
Great to hear a Big Audio Dynamite song again, which then also gives me the opportunity to post one of my favourite The Clash songs.
Watching HBOs Euphoria, and as the 2020s teenagers are doing drugs they are dancing to this excellent 1970s classic…