''Out Like a Light'' is a live album by jazz guitarist John Scofield, recorded in 1981 and released in 1983 on
Enja Records
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. It is the last of three albums to feature his trio with bass guitarist Steve Swallow and drummer Adam Nussbaum.
The album is the follow-up to his previous ''
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'' as both recordings contain material from the same Munich concert venue. ''Out Like a Light'' contains the third evening of December 1981 the trio played there. Except for the last track, a standard by
Alan Jay Lerner
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the repertoire consists of four original compositions by Scofield that all run over 7 minutes. It was the third and last album of this trio and the last for the Enja label. During his following tenure with
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Sco would sign with Gramavision.
Scofield and Swallow continued to work together. Swallow would serve as producer on a number of Scofield albums on which he does not play, and eventually as bassist once again with a touring trio ('' EnRoute: John Scofield Trio LIVE'', 2004) on '' This Meets That'' in 2006, and ''
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'', 1986), on Swallow's own album '' Swallow'' (1992), and with
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Motohiko Hino
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Track listing
#"Holidays" (John Scofield) - 8:45
#"Last Week" (Scofield) - 8:41
#"Miss Directions" (Scofield) - 7:53
#"Out Like a Light" (Scofield) - 7:01
#"Melinda" ( Al Lerner) - 3:18