Joe Jackson Joe Jackson Night And Day

"Night And Day" is Joe Jackson's biggest hit album and was his fifth release as a bandleader or solo artist when it was released in 1982. Born in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, England, the musician, who learned to play the violin and piano at the age of eleven, received a scholarship to study composition at the Royal Academy of Music in 1972, graduating in 1975. Three years later, he moved to London, founded the Joe Jackson Band and got his first record deal with A&M Records. "Look Sharp!", the band's debut album, became - like the two following albums - commercially very successful. In 1982, he moved to New York and immediately recorded "Night And Day", which showed Jackson's compositional diversity for the first time and contained one of the musician's best-known singles, "Steppin' Out". 2 times platinum and 3 times gold status and soon one million records sold prove the popularity of the album.
Joe Jackson said of "Night And Day": "No guitar, Latin rhythms and a more polished and jazz-influenced approach to songwriting ... my first three albums were London albums, but this is a New York album. It was also the first time that I did exactly what I wanted to do, regardless of the consequences. I was really nervous when it was released, I thought it would be hated or ignored, but it was my most successful album. In many ways, it feels like my first." "Night And Day" is full of subtle allusions: The title "Real Men" indirectly refers to the city's gay culture in the early 1980s, which was just coming out. New York, where Jackson was looking for new inspirations and sounds, was good to him and gave him exactly the success that reflects the glitz and glamour of the world metropolis. The superbly composed and arranged pop songs are inspired by the greatness of Cole Porter and George Gershwin and confidently enriched with elements of jazz, swing and salsa. A genre-bending crossover sound that probably no one who had heard the edgy power pop of Jackson's first albums "Look Sharp!" and "I'm The Man" would ever have thought it capable of.
"Night And Day" was mastered 100 percent analog by the legendary Kevin Gray at CoHEARent Audio. He had access to the best analog tape source currently available, a beautifully preserved and great-sounding 1/2-inch "backup" copy of the original stereo master. This sounded simply phenomenal, with rich bass, many details in the mids and highs and a very lively and powerful dynamic. The LP reissue from Intervention Records – pressed on 150-gram vinyl by Gotta Groove Records and cut at 33 rpm – can rightly call itself "audiophile" – one of those rare reissues where the sound quality is in no way inferior to the musical performance! In keeping with its status, "Night And Day" comes in a deluxe single gatefold sleeve from Stoughton Printing – including the iconic album cover.

Features:

• 150g Vinyl LP

Selections:

Side A
1. Another World
2. Chinatown
3. T.V. Age
4. Target
5. Steppin' Out
Side B
1. Breaking Us In Two
2. Cancer
3. Real Men
4. A Slow Song