Jackie McLean Demon's Dance UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
Jackie McLean's music was closely interwoven with avant-garde styles in the 1960s, with the brilliant albums "One Step Beyond" and "Destination... Out!" from 1963, and then transition to free jazz with "New And Old Gospel" (with Ornette Coleman on trumpet) and "'Bout Soul" from 1967. Recorded in December 1967, "Demon's Dance" features the great virtuoso of the alto saxophone in a decidedly post-bop style, accompanied by a lively quintet consisting of trumpeter Woody Shaw, pianist LaMont Johnson, double bassist Scott Holt and drummer Jack DeJohnette. The six tracks on the album were written in equal parts by McLean, Shaw and composer Cal Massey. Among the most beautiful pieces are the title track by McLean, the melodic bossa "Sweet Love Of Mine" by Shaw and the lively swing "Message From Trane" by Massey, dedicated to the unforgettable John Coltrane, who passed away a few months before the release of this album. The most striking feature of this record, however, is undoubtedly the impressive cover art by Mati Klairwein, who also designed the cover of Miles Davis' "Bitches Brew".
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 "Demon's Dance" took place on December 22, 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:

• Woody Shaw, trumpet, flugelhorn
• Jackie McLean, alto sax
• LaMont Johnson, piano
• Scott Holt, bass
• Jack DeJohnette, drums

Selections:

1. Demon's Dance
2. Toyland
3. Boo Ann's Grand
4. Sweet Love Of Mine
5. Floogeh
6. Message From Trane