Thad Jones The Magnificent Thad Jones UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
"The Magnificent Thad Jones" is widely regarded as the best small group recording in the trumpeter and composer's career. After his Blue Note debut "Detroit – New York Junction" in March 1956, Jones returned to the studio in July to record this extremely swinging album with Billy Mitchell on tenor saxophone, Barry Harris on piano, Percy Heath on bass and Max Roach on drums. The album opens with a legendary rendition of "April In Paris", a reissue of the famous version with Jones recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra the year before – complete with the trumpeter's mischievous "Pop Goes The Weasel" quote. Other highlights of the album include two Jones originals – the laid-back "Billie-Doo" and the slightly swinging "Thedia" as well as the breathtaking ballad "If Someone Had Told Me". Michael G. Nastos' review on AllMusic reads: "This quintet plays really great jazz together... The musicality is at such a high level, so intelligently selected and executed, that this CD is a must for any collection and is generally regarded as Jones' best work, regardless of the later big band recordings with Mel Lewis."
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 "The Magnificent Thad Jones" took place on July 9 and 14, 1956 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:

• Thad Jones, trumpet
• Billy Mitchell, tenor sax
• Barry Harris, piano
• Percy Heath, bass
• Max Roach, drums

Selections:

1. April In Paris
2. Billie-Doo
3. If I Love Again
4. If Someone Had Told Me
5. Thedia