Miles Davis Volume 2 (Mono) UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
Legendary trumpeter Miles Davis was still at the beginning of his illustrious career when he entered a studio to record pieces to be released by Blue Note between 1952 and 1954. First released on three 10-inch LPs titled "Young Man With A Horn," "Vol. 2," and "Vol. 3," these pieces show all the essential features of Miles Davis' early style, from rousing bebop influences to intense, melancholic ballads. When Blue Note began producing 12-inch LPs in 1955, Lion grouped these pieces into just two "volumes" that marked the beginning of the 1500 series. "Volume 2" contains a series of pieces recorded between 1952 and 1954 that present Miles' sextet in two almost stellar line-ups, including trombonist J.J. Johnson, saxophonists Jackie McLean and Jimmy Heath, pianists Gil Coggins and Horace Silver, double bassists Oscar Pettiford and Percy Heath, and drummers Kenny Clarke and Art Blakey.
By the late 1940s, Miles was a member of both the Charlie Parker Quintet and Dizzy Gillespie's Big Band. Despite these prestigious and demanding commitments, he also found time to record tracks as a bandleader – including the groundbreaking session "Birth Of The Cool", released by Capitol Records. When he came into contact with Alfred Lion and Blue Note, Miles was still far from being considered a jazz legend, but he was clearly on his way to becoming one of the greatest jazz bandleaders of all time.
As part of the hugely popular Blue Note 85th Anniversary Reissue Series, Universal Music Japan presents the sonically stunning remastering of this jazz classic by the legendary Kevin Gray, who is also responsible for Blue Note US's analog reissues such as "Tone Poet" and "Classic Vinyl" – as a limited Japan-exclusive UHQCD with OBI Stripe. The original recordings for "Volume 2" took place on May 9, 1952, April 20, 1953 and March 6, 1954 at WOR Studios, New York.
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:

• Miles Davis, trumpet
• J.J. Johnson, trombone
• Jackie McLean, alto sax
• Jimmy Heath, tenor sax
• Gil Coggins, piano
• Horace Silver, piano
• Oscar Pettiford, bass
• Percy Heath, bass
• Kenny Clarke, drums
• Art Blakey, drums

Selections:

1. Take Off
2. Weirdo
3. Would'n You
4. I Waited For You
5. Ray's Idea (Alternate Master)
6. Donna
7. Well You Needn't
8. The Leap
9. Lazy Susan
10. Tempus Fugit (Alternate Master)
11. It Never Entered My Mind