After reading Rolling Stone magazine’s list of Top 100 guitarists, I felt the need to chime in.

This plays like Vince Guaraldi for a new generation, as Harry Connick Jr. performs an all-original, Christmas-themed set that recalls the spirit of the season without falling into the cliches that often follow better known Yuletide classics.

< >> *** STEELY DAN SUNDAY INDEX *** The first track from Steely Dan’s The Royal Scam is about jazz changes over a tight, chugging funk-disco groove expertly manned by Chuck Rainey and Bernard Purdie.

The story of Stories begins with songwriter and pianist Michael Brown, who in the late 1960s rose to prominence with the Left Banke.