Stanley Turrentine With The 3 Sounds Blue Hour UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
Alfred Lion's brilliant idea of bringing tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine together with The Three Sounds – the trio of pianist Gene Harris, bassist Andrew Simpkins and drummer Bill Dowdy – on the 1960 album "Blue Hour" led to one of the most soulful hard bop releases in the Blue Note catalogue. Both Turrentine and The Three Sounds were still at the beginning of their long-standing collaboration with the label: The saxophonist had recorded his debut album "Look Out" a few months earlier and the trio had debuted in 1958 with "Introducing The 3 Sounds". "Blue Hour" is a blistering late-night album that captivates with seductive ballad interpretations of four standards: "I Want A Little Girl", "Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You", "Since I Fell For You" and "Willow Weep For Me". At the center of the album is Harris' spirited "Blue Riff", the only up-tempo track of this classic.
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 "Blue Hour" took place on December 16, 1960 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:

• Stanley Turrentine, tenor sax
• Gene Harris, piano
• Andrew Simpkins, bass
• Bill Dowdy, drums

Selections:

1. I Want A Little Girl
2. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You
3. Blue Riff
4. Since I Fell For You
5. Willow Weep For Me