Joe Jackson - Night and Day (Vinyl LP) * * * *

Joe Jackson's 1982 Studio Album Night and Day on LP: 100% Analog Mastered from the Original Master Tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio.

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.