Grant Green The Latin Bit UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
Grant Green had already recorded a dozen classic hard bop and soul jazz sessions for Blue Note within two years when he came to Rudy Van Gelder's studio in 1962 to record "The Latin Bit". The idea for this album was a turning point for Green: the guitarist explored Latin American and Brazilian influences with a band consisting of Johnny Acea on piano, Wendell Marshall on double bass, Willie Bobo on drums, Carlos "Patato" Valdes on conga and Garvin Masseaux on chekere. As Nat Hentoff wrote in the album's liner notes, "It is thanks to Green's remarkable ease that this Latin-influenced jazz album becomes such a perfect fusion of Afro-Cuban expressions with modern swing and blues." The highly entertaining record features refreshing reinterpretations of "Mambo Inn" and "My Little Suede Shoes," as well as a lyrical and enchanting version of "Besame Mucho."
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 session for "The Latin Bit" took place on April 26, 1962 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:

• Johnny Acea, piano
• Willie Bobo, drums
• Grant Green, guitar
• Wendell Marshall, bass
• Garvin Masseaux, chekere
• Carlos "Patato" Valdes, conga

Selections:

1. Mambo Inn
2. Besame Mucho
3. Mama Inez
4. Brazil
5. My Little Suede Shoes
6. Tico Tico