Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz with Steely Dan

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Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz with Steely Dan is a jazz album released in 2005.

The album comprises music and conversation recorded during a 2002 visit by Steely Dan's Walter Becker and Donald Fagen to Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz radio program.

Together with McPartland on piano, Becker and Fagen play several jazz standards and three Steely Dan songs, backed by bass and drums.

The album is one in a series of recordings from the Piano Jazz show.^[2]

Track listing

1. "Conversation" – 1:38
2. "Limbo Jazz" (Duke Ellington) – 2:42
3. "Conversation" – 5:07
4. "Josie" (Becker, Fagen) – 3:50
5. "Conversation" – 3:06
6. "Mood Indigo" (Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) – 3:07
7. "Conversation" – 2:41
8. "Star Eyes" (Gene de Paul, Don Raye) – 3:19
9. "Conversation" – 3:38
10. "
    W.C. Handy
    ) – 3:26
11. "Conversation" – 5:17
12. "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" (Mercer Ellington, Persons) – 3:46
13. "Conversation" – 1:41
14. "Chain Lightning" (Becker, Fagen) – 4:44
15. "Conversation" – 1:50
16. "Black Friday" (Becker, Fagen) – 3:50

Personnel

• Marian McPartland – piano
• Walter Becker – electric guitar
• Donald Fagen – piano, vocals
• Jay Leonhart – double bass
• Keith Carlock – drums

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