''Days and Nights of Blue Luck Inverted'' is a studio album by

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, released in June 1988 and featuring guests including Carmen Lundy, Leo Nocentelli, and Steve Swallow. It made it into jazz reviewer Phillip Watson's top 15 albums of 1988.

Background

The album was among the first released by record label Pangea, founded by English musician

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. It took two years to produce. Like its predecessor '' Vertical's Currency'', ''Days and Nights of Blue Luck Inverted'' was considered another step in the direction of an avant-garde reimagining of jazz, using elements of world music as its starting point to explore new and interesting directions for jazz.

Critical reception

On release music reviewer Peter Watrous praised the album in ''

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'', writing that "Hanrahan avoids the mold; his records constitute one of the more fruitful experiments of the '80s, an experiment that people will want to listen to for a long time. It's also music that sums up the intelligent side of our age, inquisitive, open minded, sensuous. That it existed in the era of

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will be one of the mysteries to be debated by social historians." Lee Jeske, writing in '' Cashbox'', described the album's mood as "simmering sensuality - thick and exotic". Phillip Watson ranked the album among the best released in 1998, writing that "With its 'optional side endings' and enigmatic titles, like its equivocations, its irreverence - it succeeds because it has rules all of its own."

Track listing

Personnel

* Charles Neville – alto saxophone * Rolando Napolean Briceno – alto saxophone * Mario Rivera – baritone saxophone * Andy Gonzalez – bass * Milton Cardona – congas *

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– congas * Giovanni Hidalgo – congas *

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– drums (traps) * Robbie Ameen – drums (traps) * Willie Green – drums (traps) * Jack Bruce – electric bass * Steve Swallow – electric bass, piano * Leo Nocentelli – electric guitar *

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– percussion (Lyndrum) *

– percussion, guitar, keyboards (Synclavier), voice, percussion (Lyndrum) * Pablo Ziegler – piano *

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– piano, keyboards (Synclavier) * David Murray – tenor saxophone * George Adams – tenor saxophone *

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– tenor saxophone * Lew Soloff – trumpet *

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– trumpet, congas * Alfredo Triff – violin * Carmen Lundy – voice *

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– voice, electric bass

References

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