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Working Nights (album)

Working Nights is the debut album by the British jazz dance band Working Week, released in 1985 by Virgin Records. The album reached #23 on the UK album charts in April 1985. Working Nights was reissued in 2012 as a remastered 2-disc Deluxe Set by Cherry Red Records.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Simon Booth and Larry Stabbins, except where noted.

  1. "Inner City Blues" (Marvin Gaye, James Nyx Jr.) – 5:44
  2. "Sweet Nothing" (Booth) – 3:39
  3. "Who’s Fooling Who" – 5:04
  4. "Thought I’d Never See You Again" – 6:26
  5. "Autumn Boy" – 6:33
  6. "Solo" – 4:40
  7. "Venceremos" (Booth) – 4:41
  8. "No Cure No Pay" (Stabbins) – 8:28

2012 Cherry Red Records reissue

Disc 1
  1. "Inner City Blues" (Gaye, Nyx Jr.) – 5:44
  2. "Sweet Nothing" (Booth) – 3:39
  3. "Who’s Fooling Who" – 5:04
  4. "Thought I’d Never See You Again" – 6:26
  5. "Autumn Boy" – 6:33
  6. "Solo" – 4:40
  7. "Venceremos" (Booth) – 4:41
  8. "No Cure No Pay" (Stabbins) – 8:28
  9. "Stella Marina" (Main Mix) (Stabbins, Jalal) – 11:04
  10. "Storm of Light" – 6:40
  11. "Bottom End" (Booth) – 5:45
  12. "Venceremos (We Will Win)" (Jazz Dance Special 12" Edit) (Booth) – 4:08
Disc 2
  1. "Venceremos (We Will Win)" (Jazz Dance Special 12" Version) (Booth) – 10:17
  2. "Afochê" (Stabbins) – 10:17
  3. "Murphy’s Law" (live previously unissued) (Stabbins) – 7:37
  4. "Pepe’s Samba" (live previously unissued) (Chico Freeman) – 8:39
  5. "Inner City Blues" (Urbane Guerrilla Mix) (Gaye, Nyx Jr.) – 5:45
  6. "Storm of Light" (Instrumental) – 3:24
  7. "Who’s Fooling Who" (Dance Version) – 4:45
  8. "Sweet Nothing" (Instrumental) (Booth) – 3:41
  9. "Where’s the Bridge" (Longer Mix) (Booth, Stabbins, Juliet Roberts) – 5:09
  10. "Venceremos" (We Will Win) (7" Bossa Version) (Booth) – 4:42
  11. "Stella Marina" (Full Rap)" (Stabbins, Jalal) – 8:35

Personnel

Working Week

with:

  • Kim Burton – piano
  • Mike Carr – organ (disc 1, track 10; disc 2, track 6)
  • Roy Dodds – drums (disc 1, tracks 2, 5, 6, 8, 9; disc 2, track 11)
  • Nic France – drums (disc 1, tracks 1, 3, 4)
  • Mark Taylor – drums (disc 1, tracks 1, 12; disc 2, tracks 1, 10)
  • Louis Moholo – drums (disc 1, track 9; disc 2, track 11)
  • Ernest Mothle – bass (disc 1, tracks 2, 5, 6, 8, 9; disc 2, track 11)
  • Chucho Merchán – bass (disc 1, tracks 1, 3, 4, 7, 12; disc 2, tracks 1, 10)
  • Dawson Miller and Bosco De Oliveira – percussion (disc 1, tracks 2, 5–9, 12; disc 2, tracks 10, 11)
  • Martin Ditcham – percussion (disc 1, tracks 1, 3, 4)
  • Robin Millar – additional guitar (disc 1, tracks 1, 3, 5)
  • Leroy Osbourne – backing vocals (disc 1, track 2)
  • Tracey Thorn – guest vocals (disc 1, track 12; disc 2, tracks 1, 10)
  • Robert Wyatt – guest vocals (disc 1, track 12; disc 2, tracks 1, 10)
  • Julie Tippetts – guest vocals (disc 1, track 9, 10; disc 2, track 11)
  • Jalal – guest vocals (disc 1, track 9; disc 2, track 11)
  • Claudia Figueroa – guest vocals (disc 1, track 7, 12; disc 2, tracks 1, 10)
  • Guy Barker – trumpet and flugelhorn (disc 1, tracks 1, 3, 4)
  • Stuart Brooke – trumpet (disc 1, track 1)
  • Harry Beckett – trumpet (disc 1, tracks 2, 5, 11; disc 2, tracks 6, 8)
  • Paul Spong – trumpet (disc 1, track 6)
  • Annie Whitehead – trombone (disc 1, tracks 2, 6, 8, 9)
  • Malcolm Griffiths – trombone (disc 1, track 4)
  • Paul Nieman – trombone (disc 1, track 1)
  • Chris Biscoe – alto saxophone (disc 1, track 3)
  • Ray Warleigh – alto and baritone saxophone (disc 1, tracks 1, 3)
  • Dave Bitelli – clarinet and baritone saxophone (disc 1, track 12; disc 2, tracks 1, 10)
  • Nick Ingman – string arrangements

Charts

Album charts

References