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I'm where elsupremo is - on the "clue" chessboard page..... and stuck.

Track available for download at: https://www.walterbeckermedia.com/downloads

... or for the New Yorkers, a Bagel with a Schmear

Hello there mod... tzg here, using that dude tohnz computer whlle he's out directing traffic among the entitled and enlightend. Nice guy, but he sure could use a maid... Slim's is a mid-sized (for SF) bar type venue that holds around 500 people. As you walk in the rectangular room the stage is on the left, the bar runs along the far side of the room and to the right back (as you face the stage) in an L shape. The soundboard is in the back left corner, which is less than ideal. I've seen a lot of shows there, and about a 3rd of them have sounded like crap, which, depending on the band, may be exactly the sound they intended. However, whoever did the sound for WB had the room dialed in... easily one of the best sounding shows I've ever seen there. I was standing middle center a little more than halfway toward the front. tzg

Are you supposed to be able to double-click on some words or image and something else happens?

One of my favorite tracks on this site. I never heard the demo before so I was going in blind and this is a really great collab. Very elegant, cool and funky. It's kind of got that jazzy bounce of solo Fagan but the rendering of it is pure Walter. Love his vox on it.

I think this is only the second picture ever seen from that night...

the bass part is great here! but am i missing something? this sounds like keyboard bass to me. fantastic part, but i'm not hearing a "live" bass.

D Pot, thanks for this; I had never seen these! WB was quite the master of this particular form, wouldn't you say? A liner note black-belt. Come to think of it, a collection of his notes would be pretty cool, and good clean (?) fun. But back to your right-on observation; the medium IS the message (or lack thereof). And for that matter and for whatever reason, we all could use (or would enjoy ) beefing up the rich mental maps of musical associations and contexts that the “legacy media” (lol!) naturally served up but that, as you observe, we don't really get anymore. In that vein, high on our wish-list for this site is to compile an exhaustive list of Becker’s production credits…a comprehensive list apparently does not yet exist. AllMusic might to have the largest, but still incomplete. Other sites have just a few. And lots of redundancy too: e.g. two credits for Song X, but one is simply the same song but now part of an anthology or collection. In any case, most people know Flying Cowboys, or China Crisis, or Michael Franks…but few realize just how many artists WB produced, and collectively, the range of style and sensibility they present (how about his productions for friend and Kirtian superstar Krishna Das? His list of productions is full of little surprises, and great musicians you may not know). He was particularly drawn to jazz musicians who had not gotten the attention he believed they deserved…or, just as frequently, artists who simply needed a good-sounding record of their work. He produced quite a few sides for SD band members as well (and often recruited the Roger Nichols' or the Peter Erskines or the Dean Parks for his projects…the artists he produced usually got A-team support ). But alas,compiling that list is a project . That’s a bitch of a project. That’s the Mother of all — ok, basta. Something else that makes the task substantial is that ideally, someone would have something to say about each release or artist — just a few lines of context, to start. Even though we think this could turn into a pretty cool thread/database, this project would be just too much to bite off just now …but... should someone become inspired to start such a listing, we wouldn’t throw her/him/them out with the coffee grinds. ("Ah HA! Here it is! She’s finally putting us to work—I knew it! Nothin’s free in this world…”) Seriously, maybe something like this could be crowd sourced...a post that grows by your contribution, which might be but a single credit. Hmmmmm…. Thanks again D Pot for the eagle eye — love seeing things that are new to me and most...

The tracks that are on Spotify have been added to a "Walter Becker - Producer" playlist. Unfortunately, most of the Triloka and Windham Hill Jazz albums aren't currently on Spotify. This list includes albums where Walter is listed as co-producer as well, so Everything Must Go and Two Against Nature are in there as well.

Thanks ☺️ W and I worked hard on this one.

Just realized -- Anthony Robustelli's recent Steely Dan FAQ has a whole chapter on Becker and Fagen as session musicians, songwriters, and producers, with entries (and info) for many of Becker's production titles! Unless someone gets to this earlier, I'll scan the chapter for you D Pot -- but not for at least another week or so. Maybe someone else has the book; it's chapter 20 EDIT: Hang up a minute -- have sent pages to D Pot, who will let us know if they'll do ...