Performance

Music of Steely Dan

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“Music of Steely Dan” at the Cutting Room places Steely Dead in a New York City club setting, where the band threads Steely Dan’s studio-bred harmony and groove through the Grateful Dead’s open-ended song forms. The result is less tribute than method: familiar writing used as a framework for improvisation and rearrangement. In a city with a long history of genre cross-pollination, this kind of hybrid ensemble practice reads as a local tradition. One clear takeaway is how durable Steely Dan’s craft remains when stripped of polish and tested live.