Joe Jackson - Night and Day / Intervention Records

“Night And Day” is Joe Jackson's biggest hit album and was his fifth release as a band leader and solo artist when it was released in 1982. Born in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, England, the musician learned to

play the violin and piano at the age of eleven and received a scholarship to study composition at the Royal Academy of Music in 1972, graduating in 1975. Three years later, he moved to London, formed the Joe

Jackson Band, and landed his first record deal with A&M Records. “Look Sharp!”, the band's debut album, was a commercial success, as were the two albums that followed. In 1982, he moved to New York and immediately

recorded “Night And Day,” which showcased Jackson's compositional diversity for the first time and included “Steppin' Out”, one of the musician's most famous singles. Two platinum and three gold certifications and soon

a million records sold attest to the album's popularity.

Joe Jackson said of “Night And Day”: "No guitar, Latin rhythms and a more sophisticated 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 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", for example, indirectly refers to the city's gay culture, which was just coming out in the early 1980s. New York, where Jackson sought new inspiration

and sounds, was good to him and gave him exactly the success that reflects the glitz and glamour of this global 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. It's a genre-bending crossover sound that 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 him 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 ½-inch “safety copy”

of the original stereo master. It sounded phenomenal, with rich bass, lots of detail in the mids and highs, and very lively with powerful dynamics. 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 every bit as good as the musical performance! Befitting its status, “Night And Day” comes in a deluxe old style “tip-on”

single-pocket gatefold jacket from Stoughton Printing – including the iconic album cover.

Title

Side A
1.    Another World
2.    Chinatown
3.    T.V. Age
4.    Target
5.    Steppin‘ Out

Side B
6.    Breaking Us In Two
7.    Cancer
8.    Real Men
9.    A Slow Song