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    Hmmm.  Straight out of Gaucho....
    
    "Special delivery for Hoops McCann."
    
    I'll have to check around.  I seem to remember seeing this somewhere
    recently, and the reference clicked, but I thought it was just
    coincidence.
    
    DFW

I heard an interview on National Public Radio a few months ago with one  of the
instigators of this band (I can't remember who it was).  I'm not  sure if the
membership of the band includes ex-Steely Dan people or not.  I do know that
they are a sort-of big band (as in horns and stuff) and  the album is big band
arrangements of Steely Dan tunes.  They played a few  cuts and they do sound
interesting.  Steely Dan was always so jazzy that  it didn't take much effort
to coax the tunes into big band arrangements.   That's all I know.  Haven't 
seen the CD personally.

Walker
 

    I saw a copy of this at BCD today, in the "Jazz New Releases"
    section. The full title is something like THE HOOPS McCANN
    BAND PLAYS THE MUSIC OF STEELY DAN. It's MCA, catalog number
    MCA-42202.
    
    I didn't note down the personnel, so I can't tell you if any
    of them played with Steely Dan (I'm not a big Dan fan in any
    event, so I couldn't really tell).
    
    --- jerry

    
    Well, I'm a huge Steely Dan fan, so I hunted it down and bought it.
    
    According to the liner notes, the Hoops McCann Band was formed as
    a one-shot to play at a jazz event of some sort in Portland, Oregon,
    and they went over so big they decided to make an album of Steely
    Dan music rearranged for medium-sized jazz ensemble.  The musicians
    are all veterans from Steely Dan studio efforts, although I didn't
    recognize any of the names immediately.
    
    I really like the album, although only one or two of the songs would
    be recognizable to people who only know Steely Dan by what they
    heard of them on the radio.  The selection of cuts is somewhat obscure,
    although there are two off of Gaucho.  They appear to have been
    selected for their suitability for rearrangement.
    
    Also for you Becker-Fagen completists, there's a song calle Rapunzel.
    This was written by Becker and Fagen for someone else on an album
    called Apogee.  The album is long out of print.
    
    For people with a taste for Steely Dan or jazz done by a band smaller
    than a big band but bigger than a quartet, it's a good choice.
                                           
    DFW

    
    
    Where did you buy the CD ? How much was it ? How much music is on it ?
    What label is it on, catalog number ?
    
    Thanks in advance !
    
    - Andy
      DTN 522-4810
    

    
    I purchased the CD from Good Vibrations in the Greendale Mall. 
    It was in the "Jazz H" section of the CD shelves.  It was the only
    copy I saw there at the time, but GV tends to put only one copy
    of slower-selling things out at a time.
    
    I paid $14.95
    
    The disc runs about 44 minutes.  It's MCA MCAD-42202, an AAD disc,
    but the recording is utterly noiseless as far as I can tell.
    
    Here's the tracking:
    
    Black Cow			(6:19)
    Babylon Sisters             (4:55)
    Rapunzel			(6:31)
    Glamour Profession		(4:24)
    Throw Back the Little Ones	(6:51)
    Deacon Blues		(6:17)
    Green Earring		(4:54)
    Three by Wally and Donald	(2:55)  (this is a medley)
    
    DFW

    This sounds interesting - I'll have to look for it.
    
    Woody Herman's big band recorded a batch of Steely Dan tunes several
    years ago on the "Chick, Walter, Donald, and Woodrow" album (or
    something like that).  There was a Chick Corea suite on side 1 and
    about 5 Dan tunes on side 2.  I haven't seen it on CD though.