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The Session Players Joni Mitchell, Steely Dan, and Paul Simon All Shared

Joni Mitchell, Steely Dan, and Paul Simon were running parallel experiments in the mid-1970s, each converging on the same pool of jazz-trained session musicians. The clearest proof is drummer Steve Gadd, whose playing connects Paul Simon's "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover," Steely Dan's Aja, and the broader session culture that guitarist Larry Carlton and others built across all three artists' most ambitious records.