Sonny Rollins Newk's Time UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
Saxophone giant Sonny Rollins recorded four albums for Blue Note in less than a year. There is probably no musician who has understood as well as Rollins how to give even the most famous pieces from the "Great American Songbook" or other sources a completely new dimension with his imaginative improvisations. An excellent example of this is the 1957 album "Newk's Time", on which he and his quartet, consisting of pianist Wynton Kelly, double bassist Doug Watkins and drummer "Philly" Joe Jones, weave pop songs, hits from Broadway musicals as well as pieces by Miles Davis and Kenny Dorham and make them their own. The program is extremely versatile: A highlight is certainly the interpretation of "The Surrey With The Fringe On Top", which the tenor saxophonist plays in a duo with drummer Jones, to whom Rollins also dedicated the album's only original composition ("Blues For Philly Joe").
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 "Newk's Time" took place on September 22, 1957 at Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, 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:

• Sonny Rollins, tenor sax
• Wynton Kelly, piano
• Doug Watkins, bass
• Philly Joe Jones, drums

Selections:

1. Tune Up
2. Asiatic Raes
3. Wonderful! Wonderful!
4. Surrey With The Fringe On Top
5. Blues For Philly Joe
6. Namely You