Gaucho (album)
Studio album by Steely Dan
Released  November 21, 1980
Recorded  1978-1980 at Soundworks, & R Studios, Sigma Sound Studios, Automated Sound Studios, NYC; Village Recorders, West LA
Genre  Jazz rock
Length  37:58
Label  MCA

Gaucho is the seventh studio album by the American Jazz rock band Steely Dan, released in 1980. The sessions for Gaucho represented the peak of Steely Dan's recording studio perfectionism and obsessive recording technique. To record the album, the band used at least 42 different musicians, spent over a year in the studio, and far exceeded the original monetary advance given to the band by their record label

During the two-year span in which the album was recorded, the band was plagued by a number of creative, personal and professional problems.[4] MCA, Warner Bros. and Steely Dan had a three-way legal battle over the rights to release the album. After it was released, jazz musician Keith Jarrett successfully sued the band for writing credit on the title song "Gaucho".

According to Ken Micaleff in an article in Modern [bad word]  the title song's [bad word] track was assembled from 46 different takes. The [bad word] on the session, Jeff Porcaro, is quoted as saying:

Gaucho won the 1981 Grammy Award for Best Non-Classical Engineered Recording.
Track listing

All songs written by Becker and [bad word]  except where noted
Side one

    "Babylon Sisters" – 5:55
    "Hey Nineteen" – 5:10
    "Glamour Profession" – 7:29

Side two

    "Gaucho" (Becker [bad word] Jarrett) – 5:32
    "Time Out of Mind" – 4:14
    "My Rival" – 4:34
    "Third World Man" – 5:13

Personnel

    Walter Becker - bass, guitar
    Donald [bad word] - organ, synthesizer, keyboards, electric piano, vocals
    Anthony Jackson - bass
    Chuck Rainey - bass
    Don Grolnick - keyboards, electric piano, clavinet
    Rob Mounsey - synthesizer, piano
    Pat Rebillot - keyboards, electric piano
    Joe Sample - electric piano
    Hiram Bullock - guitar
    Larry Carlton - guitar
    Rick Derringer - guitar
    Steve Khan - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
    Mark Knopfler - lead guitar on "Time out of Mind"
    Hugh McCracken - guitar
    Wayne Andre - trombone
    Michael Brecker - tenor saxophone, vocals
    Randy Brecker - [bad word]  flugelhorn
    Ronnie Cuber - baritone saxophone
    Walter Kane - bass clarinet
    George Marge - bass clarinet
    David Sanborn - alto saxophone, vocals
    David Tofani - tenor saxophone, vocal
    Steve Gadd - percussion, [bad word]     Rick Marotta - [bad word]     Robbie Buchanan - piano, synthesizers and vocals
    Jeff Porcaro - percussion, [bad word]     Bernard "Pretty" Purdie - [bad word]     [bad word] Bennett - percussion
    Victor Feldman - percussion, keyboards
    Ralph MacDonald - percussion
    Nicky Marrero - percussion, timbales, vocals
    Patti Austin - vocals, background vocals
    Frank Floyd - background vocals
    Diva Gray - vocals, background vocals
    Gordon Grody - vocals, background vocals
    Lani Groves - vocals, background vocals
    Michael McDonald - vocals, background vocals
    Leslie Miller - vocals, background vocals
    Jennifer James - vocals, background vocals
    Zachary Sanders - vocals, background vocals
    Valerie Simpson - vocals, background vocals
    Toni Wine - vocals, background vocals

Production

    Producers: Gary Katz
    Executive producers: Paul Bishow, Roger Nichols
    Executive engineer: Roger Nichols
    Assistant engineers: John "Doc" Daugherty, Gerry Gabinelli, Craig Goetsch, Tom Greto, Barbara Isaak, Georgia Offrell, John Potoker, Linda Randazzo, Marti Robertson, Carla Bandini
    Production coordination: Jeff Fura, Margaret Goldfarb, Shannon Steckloff
    Mixing: Elliot Scheiner
    Mix down: Elliot S