AJA
Aja is the sixth album by the jazz rock band Steely Dan. Originally released in 1977 on ABC Records, it became the group's best-selling album. Peaking at No. 3 on the U.S. charts and No. 5 in the United Kingdom, Aja was the band’s first platinum album, eventually selling over 5 million copies. The record spawned a number of hit singles, including “Peg”, “Deacon Blues”, and “Josie”. In July 1978, the album won the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Non-Classical Recording. In 2003, the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and ranked number 145 on Rolling Stone’s “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time” list. The album is often cited as one of the best test recordings for audiophiles, due to its high production standards. (More from Wikipedia)
Hiram Bullock, Give it What U Got – Hiram Bullock is a longtime New York session guitarist who played on some of the finest pop albums of the 1970’s, such as Billy Joel’s The Stranger and Steely Dan’s Aja (both released in 1977). He was also one of the bandmembers in the original incarnation of the World’s Most Dangerous Band that Paul Shaffer assembled when Late Night with David Letterman first went on the air in 1982. Beginning in 1986, Hiram Bullock released more than a dozen albums as a solo artist. Give it What U Got (1987), his second album is an enjoyable blend of jazz, rock and funk that he would perfect even further over time. The final track is an instrumental treatment of a Steely Dan song, “Pretzel Logic”, the title song to their third album, Pretzel Logic; “Pretzel Logic” was the follow-up single to their major hit “Rikki Don’t Lose that Number”.
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