Joe Jackson – Night and Day (Intervention Records 180g Vinyl LP)

In 1981, following the dissolution of the Joe Jackson Band, musical journeyman Joe Jackson recorded Jumpin’ Jive, a ‘musical vacation’ paying tribute to swing and jump blues artists such as Louis Jordan and Cab Calloway. Returning to songwriting, he spent a large chunk of 1982 in New York soaking up the sounds of ‘The City That Never Sleeps’.

The result was the masterpiece, Night and Day, a more sophisticated and melodic record built around keyboards and Latin percussion rather than guitars, and named after the Cole Porter song. With a new guitar-less band featuring Graham Maby (bass), Larry Tolfree (drums) and Sue Hadjopoulos (percussion), Jackson hit the road for a whole year, and the album became his biggest success, spawning the hit singles “Steppin’ Out,” “Breaking Us In Two” and “Real Men.”

Night And Day truly has it all – wonderful songwriting, incredible arrangements and both commercial and critical appeal – and it stands as Joe Jackson’s only studio album to reach the Top 5 in both the U.K. and U.S.

“The Intervention reissue again beats the original A&M in every way.”
—Michael Fremer, Analog Planet

• 180-gram vinyl LP

• Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio

• 100% analog mastering from real analog tapes

• Pressed at RTI

• Single-pocket gatefold packaging printed at Stoughton

1. Another World
2. Chinatown
3. T.V. Age
4. Targe
5. Steppin’ Out
6. Breaking Us In Two
7. Cancer
8. Real Men
9. A Slow Song