Baby Face Willette Face To Face UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
Fans of the Hammond B3 organ and soul-jazz know and appreciate the music of Jimmy Smith, but many know nothing about the tragically short life and career of Roosevelt "Baby Face" Willette, who recorded some of the most intense and impressive pieces ever played on a B3 and released the Blue Note on two albums in 1961. The debut album "Face To Face" is an indispensable jewel that shows off his spectacular, blues-soaked organ pirouettes in all their glory. Thanks to the participation of the brilliant guitarist Grant Green, the great tenor saxophonist Fred Jackson and the drummer Ben Dixon with his solid rock background, "Face To Face" is a true tour de force of powerful and brilliant soul-jazz. The famous cover was designed by the great Reid Miles.
In the course of the extremely popular "Blue Note 85th Anniversary Reissue Series", Universal Music Japan presents the sonically impressive remastering of this jazz classic by the legendary Kevin Gray, who is also responsible for the analog reissues of Blue Note US such as "Tone Poet" and "Classic Vinyl" - as a limited Japanese UHQCD with OBI Stripe. The original recording session for "Face To Face" took place on January 30, 1961 at Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, 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:

• Fred Jackson, tenor sax
• Grant Green, guitar
• "Baby Face" Willette, organ
• Ben Dixon, drums

Selections:

1. Swingin' At Sugar Ray's
2. Goin' Down
3. Whatever Lola Wants
4. Face To Face
5. Somethin' Strange
6. High 'N Low