Aja is the sixth studio album by the American rock band Steely Dan, released on September 23, 1977, by ABC Records. For the album, band leaders Donald Fagen and Walter Becker pushed Steely Dan further into … 展开

The album was produced by Steely Dan's longtime producer Gary Katz, engineered by longtime master engineer Roger Nichols, and … 展开

Aja was released by ABC Records on September 23, 1977. In anticipation of the release, Katz urged the relatively private Fagen and Becker to raise their public profile, and arranged a … 展开

Adapted from the liner notes.
• Tom Scott – horn arrangements and conducting of horns
• Jim Horn 展开

The sessions for Aja produced several outtakes, including "The Bear" and "Stand by the Seawall" (the latter title was given to two completely different outtakes recorded during the sessions). None of these songs were ever officially released, but "The Bear" was later … 展开

The title of the album is pronounced "Asia" (like the continent). Donald Fagen has said Aja was the name of a Korean woman who married the brother of one of his high-school friends. … 展开

Reviewing the album in 1977 for Rolling Stone, Michael Duffy said that "the conceptual framework of [Steely Dan's] music has shifted from the pretext of rock & roll toward a smoother, awesomely clean and calculated mutation of various rock, pop and jazz … 展开