Night-Glo

Night-Glo
Night-Glo
Studio album by Carla Bley
Released	1985
Recorded	June–August 1985
Studio	Grog Kill Studio, Willow, New York
Genre	Jazz
Length	36:22
Label	Watt/ECM
Producer	Carla Bley & Steve Swallow
Carla Bley chronology
Steve Swallow chronology

Night-Glo is an album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley, with bassist Steve Swallow, recorded and released on the Watt/ECM label in 1985.^[1]^[2]

Reception

The AllMusic review by Richard S. Ginell deemed the album "a relaxed, easygoing, easy-listening series of compositions that nearly spills over into fuzak... Bley permits the lazy pina-colada mood to amble undisturbed from track to track".^[3] The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 2½ stars.^[4]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[3]
Tom Hull	B−^[5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	^[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Carla Bley.

"Pretend You're in Love" - 4:30
"Night-Glo" - 6:45
"Rut" - 7:37
"Crazy With You" - 5:13
"Wildlife: Horns/Paws Without Claws/Sex With Birds" - 12:33

Personnel

Carla Bley - organ, synthesizer
Steve Swallow - bass guitar
Randy Brecker - trumpet, flugelhorn
Paul McCandless - oboe, english horn, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone
John Clark - french horn
Tom Malone - trombone
David Taylor - bass trombone
Larry Willis - piano, electric piano
Hiram Bullock - guitar
Victor Lewis - drums
Manolo Badrena - percussion

References

^ Carla Bley discography accessed August 5, 2010
^ ECM/WATT discography Archived 2016-09-16 at the Wayback Machine accessed August 25, 2016
^ ^a ^b Ginell, R. S. AllMusic Review accessed August 5, 2010
^ ^a ^b Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008) [1992]. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 131. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.
^ Hull, Tom (28 February 2018). "Streamnotes". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved 9 July 2020.

[Bley_discography-1] Carla Bley discography accessed August 5, 2010

[2] ECM/WATT discography Archived 2016-09-16 at the Wayback Machine accessed August 25, 2016

[Allmusic-3] Ginell, R. S. AllMusic Review accessed August 5, 2010

[Penguin_Guide-4] Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008) [1992]. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 131. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.

[Hull-5] Hull, Tom (28 February 2018). "Streamnotes". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved 9 July 2020.

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v t e Carla Bley
As leader	Tropic Appetites (1974) Dinner Music (1977) European Tour 1977 (1978) Musique Mecanique (1979) Social Studies (1981) Live! (1982) I Hate to Sing (1984) Heavy Heart (1984) Sextet (1987) Fleur Carnivore (1989) The Very Big Carla Bley Band (1991) Big Band Theory (1993) Songs with Legs (1994) The Carla Bley Big Band Goes to Church (1996) Fancy Chamber Music (1998) 4 x 4 (2000) Looking for America (2003) The Lost Chords (2004) The Lost Chords find Paolo Fresu (2007) Appearing Nightly (2008) Carla's Christmas Carols (2009) Trios (2013) Andando el Tiempo (2016) Life Goes On (2020)
With Gary Burton	A Genuine Tong Funeral (1967)
With Jazz Composer's Orchestra	The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (1968) Escalator over the Hill (1968-71) Relativity Suite (1973)
With Michael Mantler	Jazz Realities (1966)
With Charlie Haden	Liberation Music Orchestra (1969) The Ballad of the Fallen (1983) Dream Keeper (1990) Not in Our Name (2005)
With Nick Mason	Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports (1979)
With Steve Swallow	Night-Glo (1985) Duets (1988) Go Together (1992) Are We There Yet? (1999)
Related articles	Discography

v t e Steve Swallow
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	Hotel Hello (with Gary Burton, 1974) Home (1979) Night-Glo (1985) Carla (1986-1987) Duets (with Carla Bley, 1988) The Life of a Trio: Saturday (with Paul Bley and Jimmy Giuffre, 1989) The Life of a Trio: Sunday (Paul Bley and Jimmy Giuffre, 1989) Swallow (1991) Go Together (with Carla Bley, 1992) Real Book (1993) Parlance (1995) Deconstructed (1996) Carla's Christmas Carols (with Carla Bley, 2008) The New Standard (with Jamie Saft and Bobby Previte, 2014) Loneliness Road (with Jamie Saft, 2017)
Live albums	Songs with Legs (with Carla Bley and Andy Sheppard, 1994) Are We There Yet? (with Carla Bley, 1998) Always Pack Your Uniform on Top (1999) Damaged in Transit (with Chis Potter and Adam Nussbaum, 2001)
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