Wayne Shorter Adam's Apple UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
Wayne Shorter had already achieved great success with audiences and extremely positive reviews for his first albums for Blue Note, including titles that would become immortal classics of jazz discography, such as "Night Dreamer", "JuJu" and "Speak No Evil" when the American label launched "Adam's Apple" in 1966. Thanks in part to the participation of pianist Herbie Hancock, double bassist Reggie Workman and drummer Joe Chambers, the album immediately went down in Blue Note history as the saxophonist's greatest recording ever and as one of the highlights of the fruitful post-bop era. Allaboutjazz wrote: "Adam's Apple is at least as good as anything else in Shorter's Blue Note catalog, which means it's excellent. Another record worth listening to in a long line of records worth listening to."
Shorter wrote five of the six tracks on the album. Highlights of this extraordinary album include the lively title track, the moving "502 Blues (Drinkin' And Drivin')" by Jimmy Rowles, "El Gaucho", a track, composed by Shorter with bossa influences, the tender ballad "Teru" and the first recording of his immortal composition "Footprints", which Shorter would re-record a few months later with Miles Davis' quintet for the album "Miles Smiles". The album ends with the very touching "Chief Crazy Horse", which is characteristic of Shorter's harmonic interweaving and features a brilliant solo by Chambers.
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 sessions for "Adam's Apple" took place on February 3 and 24, 1966 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:

• Wayne Shorter, tenor sax
• Herbie Hancock, piano
• Reginald Workman, bass
• Joe Chambers, drums

Selections:

1. Adam's Apple
2. 502 Blues (Drinkin' And Drivin')
3. El Gaucho
4. Footprints
5. Teru
6. Chief Crazy Horse