Although Steely Dan are routinely hailed as one of the last century’s most subversively brilliant bands, when their second album Countdown To Ecstasy was released 50 years ago the UK remained largely ...

It’s hard to argue with a Steely Dan album. They’re all pretty great, so it’s just a matter of working out how great whatever Steely Dan album you’re talking about is. Their second album, Countdown to ...

For Countdown to Ecstasy it's all about respect. Respect for Steely Dan... Fagen, Becker and their world-class studio and touring musicians over the decades. Their jazz-infused meticulously-crafted, ...

Steely Dan will reissue their 1973 LP, Countdown to Ecstasy, on vinyl next month. The group’s co-founder Donald Fagen has overseen the newly remastered collection of music, which will be released on ...

Steely Dan’s 1973 album, Countdown to Ecstasy, will soon be reissued as a part of a year-long series that will see the band’s classic albums make their return to vinyl. The iconic fusion rock band ...

WHO ARE THEY: Countdown to Ecstasy are a Steely Dan tribute act from Philadelphia. The band formed in 2009 and goes out of their way to recreate the complex arrangements and musicianship of the ...

“Jazz,” Artie Shaw once said, “was born in a whiskey barrel, grew up on marijuana, and is about to expire on heroin.” Drugs took Charlie Parker, and figured heavily in the premature deaths of Billie ...