Night-Glo

1985 studio album by Carla Bley

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
| Heavy Heart
(1983)  | Night-Glo
(1985)  | Sextet
(1986)

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Steve Swallow chronology
| Home
(1980)  | Night-Glo
(1985)  | Carla
(1987)

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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

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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 ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [3]
Tom Hull| B−[5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz| [4]

## Track listing

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All compositions by Carla Bley.

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

## Personnel

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* 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

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1. ^ Carla Bley discography accessed August 5, 2010
2. ^ ECM/WATT discography Archived 2016-09-16 at the Wayback Machine accessed August 25, 2016
3. ^ a b Ginell, R. S. AllMusic Review accessed August 5, 2010
4. ^ 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.
5. ^ Hull, Tom (February 28, 2018). "Streamnotes". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved July 9, 2020.

* v
* t
* e

Carla Bley

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)

Related articles|

* New York Art Quartet

Authority control databases |

* MusicBrainz release group

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