A group of familiar faces played a superb tribute to Steely Dan, Dec. 17 at the Slice.

Most of  the Jimmy Mac band took the stage first with the addition of Jon Martin on guitar to play the Caribbean tinged jazz rock instrumentals from their self titled CD.

Jason Schultchen played some  groovy bass, Anthony Pittarelli kept the beat on drums, while Brad Brouwer added upbeat percussion as Martin played tasteful guitar leads and Jim McLaren warmed up his fingers on keyboards and organ for the Steely Dan workout to come.

After a slight line-up change, with James Oldenburg (coming straight from an early gig at the Mocha Cabana) on guitar and vocals and Paul Holden on bass, they played a variety of Steely Dan favourites like “Do It Again,” and “Kid Charlemagne.”

McLaren was impressive on keyboards and also vocals.

And between him and James Oldenburg, nailed the Steely Dan vocal sound.
 They ended their last set with “Hey 19.”