Grant Green Idle Moments UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
Time and space seem to dissolve during the fifteen minutes of "Idle Moments", the opening track of Grant Green's magnificent 1963 album of the same name. As the song unfolds, all of the ensemble's unique colors emerge: Green's soulful guitar is accompanied by the elegant piano playing of Duke Pearson, the crystal-clear vibraphone of Bobby Hutcherson, the soothing bass of Bob Cranshaw, the powerful drums of Al Harewood and the magnificent tenor saxophone of Joe Henderson. The rhythm accelerates as this extraordinary album progresses, in which Green's agile original track "Jean De Fleur", a blues reinterpretation of the MJQ standard "Django" by John Lewis and a rousing performance of Pearson's original title "Nomad" stand out. "The Penguin Jazz Guide" puts it in a nutshell: "Probably Green's best record!"
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 Japan-exclusive UHQCD with OBI-Stripe. The original recording sessions for "Idle Moments" took place on November 4 and 15, 1963 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:

• Joe Henderson, tenor sax
• Bobby Hutcherson, vibraphone
• Grant Green, guitar
• Duke Pearson, piano
• Bob Cranshaw, bass
• Al Harewood, drums

Selections:

1. Idle Moments
2. Jean De Fleur
3. Django
4. Nomad