Duke Pearson The Right Touch UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
According to many experts, the unjustly underestimated career of Duke Pearson can best be rediscovered with the 1967 album "The Right Touch", the title of which fits perfectly with its content. The album is considered by many to be the most valuable gem in Pearson's discography, as it clearly expresses his phenomenal talent as a pianist, composer and arranger. The program of "The Right Touch" includes six unforgettable pieces written by Pearson himself and arranged for a dynamic eight-piece band – including trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, trombonist Garnett Brown, alto saxophonist James Spaulding, alto saxophone and flute virtuoso Jerry Dodgion, tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, double bassist Gene Taylor and drummer Grady Tate. At AllMusic, the hard bop album, spiced with Latin elements, which is described there as "one of the best recordings of Duke Pearson's career", received the rare maximum rating of five stars.
Among the most significant pieces on this record are the spicy "Chili Peppers", the light swing of "Make It Good", in which Pearson shows off his elegant piano style, the charming bossa nova ballad "My Love Waits (O Meu Amor Espera)", in which Hubbard's flugelhorn comes into its own, the nostalgic blues "Scrap Iron", which seems to have been written for Turrentine's melancholic tenor saxophone, and "Rotary", the sparkling finale, which is bursting with swing while all the musicians play their rousing solos.
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 recording session for "The Right Touch" took place on September 13, 1967 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
• Garnett Brown, trombone
• James Spaulding, alto sax
• Jerry Dodgion, alto sax, flute
• Stanley Turrentine, tenor sax
• Duke Pearson, piano
• Gene Taylor, bass
• Grady Tate, drums

Selections:

1. Chili Peppers
2. Make It Good
3. My Love Waits (O Meu Amor Espera)
4. Los Malos Hombres
5. Scrap Iron
6. Rotary