http://undertheinfluence.me.uk/taxonomy/term/282/0 en http://undertheinfluence.me.uk/music/donald_fagen_the_nightfly <p>A portrait of the artist as a young man, The Nightfly is a wonderfully evocative reminiscence of Kennedy-era American life; in the liner notes, Donald Fagen describes the songs as representative of the kinds of fantasies he entertained as an adolescent during the late '50s/early '60s, and he conveys the tenor of the times with some of his most personal and least obtuse material to date. </p> <p>Continuing in the smooth pop-jazz mode favored on the final Steely Dan records, 'The Nightfly' is lush and shimmering, produced with cinematic flair by Gary Katz; romanticized but never sentimental, the songs are slices of suburbanite soap opera, tales of space-age hopes (the hit "I.G.Y.") and Cold War fears (the wonderful "The New Frontier," (featured here) a memoir of fallout-shelter love) crafted with impeccable style and sophistication. </p> http://undertheinfluence.me.uk/music/donald_fagen_the_nightfly#comments 1982 Contemporary Jazz-Rock Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:41:03 -0500 kevster 214 at http://undertheinfluence.me.uk