Horace Silver Quintet Further Explorations by the Horace Silver Quintet UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
At 27 years old, Horace Silver was the artist with the longest contract term in Blue Note history. The legendary pianist and composer recorded his first Blue Note session "Horace Silver Trio" in 1952, and his session for "Silver 'N Strings Play The Music Of The Spheres" was the very last recording before the label ceased operations in 1979. In between, Silver recorded some of the most popular albums in the Blue Note catalog, which included bebop, hard bop and soul-jazz, and forged his own path through the fusion movement in the 1970s. "Further Explorations" documents the Horace Silver Quintet with Art Farmer on trumpet, Clifford Jordan on tenor saxophone, Teddy Kotick on bass and Louis Hayes on drums. You can always expect a Silver release to groove, but this January 1958 session is particularly inspired: "The Outlaw" is one of Silver's most irrepressible creations, with brilliant solos from Jordan, Farmer and Silver. "Moon Rays" is what Silver described as a "walking ballad" that gives the band plenty of room to unfold.
As part of the hugely popular Blue Note 85th Anniversary Reissue Series, Universal Music Japan presents the sonically stunning remastering of this jazz classic by the legendary Kevin Gray, who is also responsible for Blue Note US's analog reissues such as "Tone Poet" and "Classic Vinyl" – as a limited Japan-exclusive UHQCD with OBI Stripe. The original recording session for "Further Explorations By The Horace Silver Quintet" took place on January 13, 1958 at Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey.
UHQCD stands for Ultimate High Quality Compact Disc and is a joint development of the Japanese CD replication company Memory-Tech and the Audio Quality CD Company from Hong Kong. UHQCDs, unlike conventional CDs, are not pressed from polycarbonate, but cast from a photopolymer and cured with UV light. To protect the softer photopolymer from scratching, another layer of high-purity polycarbonate is applied. The combination results in a significantly reduced reflection of the laser light inside the CD and an unrivalled precise edge transition between pits and lands of the CD. UHQCDs are 100% compatible with normal CD players. Musically, the result is a sound that is strongly reminiscent of analog master tapes.
While Universal Music Japan's first UHQCD series relied on the DSD data of previous SHM-SACD releases, albums that had not previously been released as SHM-SACD are now being released with increasing popularity. Typically, the master tapes of the Universal Archive are re-converted to DSD for this purpose. UHQCDs are ideal for music lovers who want to get as close as possible to the sound of the recording, but do not have a SACD player.

Features:

• Numbered, Limited Edition
• Made in Japan
• Superior Crystal Sound
• Ultimate High Quality CD
• XRCD-Like Luxury Digipak
• Playable on conventional CD players

Musicians:

• Art Farmer, trumpet
• Clifford Jordan, tenor saxophone
• Horace Silver, piano
• Teddy Kotick, bass
• Louis Hayes, bass

Selections:

1. The Outlaw
2. Melancholy Mood
3. Pyramid
4. Moon Rays
5. Safari
6. Ill Wind