B.L.U.E. Nights
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B.L.U.E. Nights is an album by Bruford Levin Upper Extremities
Bruford Levin Upper Extremities
Bruford Levin Upper Extremities was a musical group composed of drummer Bill Bruford, bassist Tony Levin, guitarist David Torn, and trumpeter Chris Botti....

, recorded live in Japan and the USA during 1998 and released in 2000.

Line-up

  • Bill Bruford
    Bill Bruford
    William Scott "Bill" Bruford is an English drummer, percussionist, composer, producer, and record label owner. He was the original drummer for the progressive rock group Yes, from 1968-1972. Bruford has performed for numerous popular acts since the early 1970s, including a stint as touring...

     — drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

  • Tony Levin
    Tony Levin
    Tony Levin is an American progressive rock musician, specializing in bass guitar, Chapman stick and upright bass ....

     — bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    s, Stick
    Chapman Stick
    The Chapman Stick is an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s. A member of the guitar family, the Chapman Stick usually has ten or twelve individually tuned strings and has been used on music recordings to play bass lines, melody lines, chords or textures...

  • Chris Botti
    Chris Botti
    Christopher Stephen "Chris" Botti , is an American trumpeter and composer. In 2007, Botti was nominated for two Grammy Awards including Best Pop Instrumental Album. On December 4, 2009, he was nominated for three more Grammy Awards including Best Pop Instrumental Album and Best Long Form Music Video...

     — trumpet
    Trumpet
    The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...

  • David Torn
    David Torn
    David Torn is an American composer and guitarist.He is known for the organic blending/manipulation of electronic and acoustic instruments and performance techniques that have an atmospheric or textural quality and effect, along with a particular harmonic richness...

     — guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

    s, loops
    Music loop
    In electroacoustic music, a loop is a repeating section of sound material. Short sections of material can be repeated to create ostinato patterns...

    , Oud
    Oud
    The oud is a pear-shaped stringed instrument commonly used in North African and Middle Eastern music. The modern oud and the European lute both descend from a common ancestor via diverging paths...


CD #1

  1. Piercing Glances – 7:50
  2. Etude Revisited – 5:28
  3. A Palace of Pearls – 5:59
  4. Original Sin – 8:13
  5. Dentures of The Gods – 6:26
  6. Deeper Blue – 6:31
  7. Cobalt Canyons – 7:29

CD #2

  1. Fin De Siecle – 5:48
  2. Picnic on Vesuvius – 9:29
  3. Cerulean Sea – 7:04
  4. Bent Tagasim / Torn Drumbass – 5:42
  5. Cracking the Midnight Glass – 6:53
  6. Presidents Day – 6:46
  7. 3 Minutes of Pure Entertainment – 11:03
  8. Outer Blue – 6:06
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