Herbie Hancock My Point of View UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
The great album "My Point of View" was the second album that the great pianist and composer Herbie Hancock recorded for Blue Note. The 1963 recordings involved a top-class band, including six shining stars of the jazz scene such as Donald Byrd (trumpet), Hank Mobley (tenor saxophone), Grachan Moncur III (trombone), Grant Green (guitar), Chuck Israels (bass) and Tony Williams (drums). Every track on the album is imbued with a rousing musicality that clearly expresses Hancock's great talent as an arranger. While "Blind Man, Blind Man" is based on Hancock's earlier hit "Watermelon Man", this session also contains really essential Hancock compositions such as "King Cobra", "A Tribute To Someone" and the bluesy "And What If I Don't".
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 "My Point Of View" took place on March 19, 1963 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:

• Donald Byrd, trumpet
• Grachan Moncur III, trombone
• Hank Mobley, tenor saxophone
• Herbie Hancock, piano
• Grant Green, guitar
• Chuck Israels, bass
• Anthony Williams, drums

Selections:

1. Blind Man, Blind Man
2. A Tribute To Someone
3. King Cobra
4. The Pleasure Is Mine
5. And What If I Don't