Steely Dan and Steve Winwood

After dazzling audiences with their first ever Australian shows in 2007, jazz rock icons STEELY DAN are returning for an encore tour in October.

And in a real treat for music lovers, legendary British vocalist, STEVE WINWOOD will be the special guest in his first visit here in more than two decades.

Steely Dan - Walter Becker and Donald Fagen - had ciritics raving on recent US shows with The New York Times stating that Fagen 'was deep in the music....a cross between Count Basie and Ray Charles.' The Chicago Sun-Times proclaimed: 'This was different. This was live. This was vibrant. This was a cascade of colour carried along by Fagen, Becker, eight brilliant supporting musicians and three superb backing vocalists.' The Los Angeles Times raved: 'Everyone who gathered Friday evening was a believer - and they were treated to something close to rapture.'

Steely Dan has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide and helped define the soundtrack of the 70's with hits including 'Do It Again', Reelin' In The Years' and 'Rikki Don't Lose That Number'. They reunited in the early 90's and have toured throughout the decade and beyond, releasing the four time Grammy winner "Two Against Nature" in 2000 and its acclaimed follow-up "Everything Must Go" in 2003.

Steve Winwood rocketed into international stardom as the prodigious singer of the Spencer Davis Group. In the next decade Winwood formed Traffic and then the 'supergroup' Blind Faith.

In 1977 Steve Winwood's solo career launched in earnest. "Arc of A Diver" featured the hit "While You See A Chance', whilst "Talking Back To The Night", "Back In The High Life" and "Roll With It" produced era-defining songs.

Later albums "Refugees of the Heart", "Junction 7", "About Time" and "Nine Lives" all continued to display Winwood's supreme musical talents.