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Plush TV Jazz-Rock Party

live album by Steely Dan

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ1766694 ↗
Source-derived summary

Plush TV Jazz-Rock Party is a live video recording of a PBS In the Spotlight special on Steely Dan, released in 2000. This video focuses on a special concert, recorded live in January 2000 at Sony Studios in New York City, New York, and features tracks from their (at the time) unreleased album Two Against Nature (2000) but also contains additional documentary footage.

Track listing

All songs composed by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen.

Editorial summary

“Plush TV Jazz-Rock Party” enters the record as live album by Steely Dan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Plush, Jazz-Rock and Party can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Plush, Jazz-Rock and Party.
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Why this record matters

“Plush TV Jazz-Rock Party” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Plush, Jazz-Rock and Party provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1766694. The first chronological checks are 2000.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Plush TV Jazz-Rock Party” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.