Herbie Hancock Speak Like a Child UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
In the mid-1960s, Herbie Hancock was a busy man who, as a member of the Miles Davis Quintet, explored new jazz styles with his colleagues. In addition to this work, he went to Rudy Van Gelder's studio in New Jersey in March 1968 to record the long-awaited follow-up to the successful album "Maiden Voyage" – "Speak Like A Child". In the three years between the releases, Hancock had matured significantly as a pianist and had developed his qualities as a composer. His influences came from the Davis band members – tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter, bassist Ron Carter, drummer Tony Williams – and the orchestral arrangements of Gil Evans, Oliver Nelson and Thad Jones. But the key to "Speak Like A Child" lies in Hancock's graceful, lyrical playing and compositions that are lovely on the surface and provocative and challenging on closer listening. Unusually, none of the horns – Jerry Dodgon (alto flute), Thad Jones (flugelhorn) and Peter Phillips (bass trombone) – play a solo in any of the songs. The rhythm section consists of bassist Ron Carter and drummer Mickey Roker. Critic Nat Hentoff described "Speak Like A Child" as "an impressive further stage in the development of Herbie Hancock as a composer and musician", which is characterised by a "unique quality of concise, searching lyricism".
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 sessions for "Speak Like A Child" took place on March 6 and 9, 1968 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:

• Herbie Hancock, piano
• Thad Jones, flugelhorn
• Ron Carter, bass
• Peter Phillips, bass trombone
• Mickey Roker, drums
• Jerry Dodgion, alto flute

Selections:

1. Riot
2. Speak Like A Child
3. First Trip
4. Toys
5. Goodbye To Childhood
6. The Sorcerer