Lee Morgan The Cooker UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
Listening to Lee Morgan perform "A Night In Tunisia", the opening track of "The Cooker", it's hard to imagine that he was only 19 years old at the time. Recorded just two weeks after Morgan's dazzling performance on John Coltrane's masterpiece "Blue Train" in September 1957, "The Cooker" was actually Morgan's fifth Blue Note album as a leader. Bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Philly Joe Jones, both of whom also appeared on "Blue Train", are joined on this excellent recording by baritone saxophone master Pepper Adams and the great Bobby Timmons on piano.
The duets between Morgan's trumpet and the deep sound of Adams' baritone saxophone give the well-known pieces a rousing liveliness. After being counted among the greats of jazz by his childhood idol Clifford Brown, Morgan was ready to make the series of recordings released by Blue Note that would make him one of the most charismatic bebop trumpeters of all time before his untimely death (at the age of only 33). The program of "The Cooker" includes two original songs by Morgan ("Heavy Dipper" and "New-Ma"), as well as the three classics "Just One Of Those Things", "A Night In Tunisia" and "Lover Man".
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 Cooker" took place on September 29, 1957 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:

• Lee Morgan, trumpet
• Pepper Adams, baritone sax
• Bobby Timmons, piano
• Paul Chambers, bass
• "Philly" Joe Jones, drums

Selections:

1. A Night In Tunisia
2. Heavy Dipper
3. Just One Of Those Things
4. Lover Man
5. New-Ma