Night-Glo

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]

Reception

The Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 2½ stars and stated "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".^[2] The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 2½ stars.^[3]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
Penguin Guide to Jazz	^[3]

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

Recorded at Grog Kill Studio, Willow, New York from June thru August, 1985.

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
↑ 2.0 2.1 Ginell, R. S. Allmusic Review accessed August 5, 2010
↑ 3.0 3.1 Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008) [1992]. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (in English) (9th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 131. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0. Cite uses deprecated parameters (help)

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Studio albums	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) 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)

With Gary Burton	A Genuine Tong Funeral (1967)

With the 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 and the Liberation Music Orchestra	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) Songs with Legs (1994) Are We There Yet? (1999)

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