Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers The Witch Doctor UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
"The Witch Doctor" shared the same fate as "Roots & Herbs": the album was not released until many years after it was recorded. "The Witch Doctor" presents one of the best Jazz Messengers line-ups of all time: Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone, Lee Morgan on trumpet, Bobby Timmons on piano and Jymie Merritt on bass just completed their first joint performance in Japan. Shorter and Morgan each contributed two tracks to "The Witch Doctor", Timmons one track. Among the absolute highlights are Morgan's spectacular 6/8 modal piece "Afrique" and Shorter's little masterpiece "Those Who Sit And Wait". Bobby Timmons expresses his deep soul voice in his composition "A Little Busy", and the album closes with a snappy rendition of Clifford Jordan's piece "Lost And Found".
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 "The Witch Doctor" took place on March 14, 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:

• Lee Morgan, trumpet
• Wayne Shorter, tenor sax
• Bobby Timmons, piano
• Jymie Merritt, bass
• Art Blakey, drums

Selections:

1. The Witch Doctor
2. Afrique
3. Those Who Sit And Wait
4. A Little Busy
5. Joelle
6. Lost And Found