Steely Dan Heavy Rollers Tour 2007 (dvd + Cd)

Steely Dan are amongst that privileged elite of musicians which include The Beatles and Brian Wilson, who gave up touring at a certain point in their career to become the masters of studio perfection and release albums so good that they defined an era. In the case of Walter Becker and Donald Fagan the obsessive search for the "right cut" would see them use 42 musicians on the 1980s album "Gaucho" with its title track drum backdrop assembled from 46 different takes.

Stereo soundboard recording live from the Molson Amphitheatre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 22nd July 2011. From the 'Shuffle Diplomacy 2011' tour - Steely Dan with the Miles High Big Band and featuring The Embassy Brats.

Stereo soundboard recording live from the Molson Amphitheatre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 22nd July 2011. From the 'Shuffle Diplomacy 2011' tour - Steely Dan with the Miles High Big Band and featuring The Embassy Brats.

Stereo soundboard recording live from the Molson Amphitheatre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 22nd July 2011. From the 'Shuffle Diplomacy 2011' tour - Steely Dan with the Miles High Big Band and featuring The Embassy Brats.

Live at Pine Knob Music Theater, Clarkston (Detroit), Michigan August 11, 2003.

Two Against Nature — Steely Dan's Grammy winner for Album of the Year! The brilliance of Steely Dan remastered and reissued by Analogue Productions! Recorded to a multi-track analog tape, mixed to 24/96 and mastered and cut by Scott Hull at Masterdisk. Hull won a Grammy for the mastering of the original Two Against Nature LP.

Led by the songwriting and virtuoso musical duo of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, Steely Dan released an extraordinary run of seven albums on ABC Records and MCA Records from 1972 through 1980. Filled with topline musicianship, clever and subversive wordplay, ironic humor, genius arrangements, and pop hits that outshone the Top 40 of its day, their records, which were as sophisticated and cerebral as they were inscrutable, were stylistically diverse, melding their love of jazz with rock, blues, and impeccable pop songcraft.

Though Steely Dan recorded prolifically for much of the '70s, they toured for only a brief spell early in that decade, deciding they much preferred the studio to the road. This allowed them to craft a wry, nuanced and hyper-literate series of albums - from 1972 to 1980 - that are highly regarded by connoisseurs of pop hooks, jazz harmony and desiccating wit. Beneath the highly polished surface of Steely Dan's music, astute listeners could hear a visceral love of and identification with the very soul of jazz. Donald Fagen and Walter Becker referenced Duke Ellington, Stan Getz and Horace Silver at least as much as any rock-oriented source material. Even so, there was a certain accessible quality to songs like "Reelin' in the Years," "Do It Again" and "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" that allowed Steely Dan to connect with rock fans.