Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Mosaic UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
"Mosaic" marks a turning point in the history of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, where the legendary drummer welcomed trumpeter Freddie Hubbard (who replaced Lee Morgan) and pianist Cedar Walton (who replaced Bobby Timmons). The band was also expanded into a sextet when trombonist Curtis Fuller joined and joined the existing members – tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter and bassist Jymie Merritt – to form a powerful new line-up that would perform together until 1964 and record several classics. "Mosaic" starts with a bang when the band kicks off with Walton's great title track. The set also includes memorable compositions by Shorter ("Children Of The Night"), Fuller ("Arabia") and Hubbard ("Down Under" and "Crisis").
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 "Mosaic" took place on October 2, 1961 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:

• Freddie Hubbard, trumpet
• Curtis Fuller, trombone
• Wayne Shorter, tenor sax
• Cedar Walton, piano
• Jymie Merritt, bass
• Art Blakey, drums

Selections:

1. Mosaic
2. Down Under
3. Children Of The Night
4. Arabia
5. Crisis