Rich Cole

Rich Cole

My earliest memory of being knocked out by a Steely Day song was hearing the guitar intro to “Josie” on the radio. I was driving and had to pull over to hear it better. I wondered how something this compositionally interesting and arcane made it onto pop...
Jack Klitzman

Jack Klitzman

Steely Dan compositions were new to me when I joined a SD tribute band after my college years. As I studied the music, a whole new world opened, with accessible melodies and novel and jazzy harmony. The arrangements allowed each instrument’s part to be heard, as in...