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Donald Fagen

Musician
Forsteely dan fans, jazz-pop aficionados, audiophiles, and late-night radio romantics.
10 Reviews 6 Definitions 5 Charts
Pop Jazz Fusion Jazz

The Profile

American singer, songwriter, and keyboardist; co-founder of Steely Dan. His acclaimed solo catalog includes The Nightfly (1982), Kamakiriad (1993), Morph the Cat (2006), and Sunken Condos (2012).

Born in 1948 in Passaic, New Jersey; co-founded Steely Dan with Walter Becker; inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2001).

Eight DeBaser reviews sketch Donald Fagen as the meticulous jazz-pop architect you’d expect. The Nightfly is hailed as a milestone (and first fully digital LP), Kamakiriad is defended as underrated, and Morph the Cat splits the room. Sunken Condos keeps the craft sharp. A soulful detour shows up via The New York Rock and Soul Revue.

Notable Quotes

❝ All of this makes Fagen’s first solo album a milestone not only of ’80s pop but probably in the entire history of popular music.
❝ The great and total novelty of “The Nightfly” is that it is the first album recorded entirely in digital, with a sound perhaps somewhat plastic, fake but extremely clean and pleasant.
❝ A work that, as Fagen himself stated, represents the third panel of a triptych, youth - “Nightfly”, maturity - “Kamakiriad”, the unavoidable confrontation with “the fella in the brite nitegown” ...
❝ Completely A N A C R O N I S T I C.
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