Hank Mobley Workout UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
Tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley was at the peak of his career in the early 1960s, producing a stunning array of hard bop classics, including "Soul Station," "Roll Call," "No Room For Squares," "The Turnaround," and "Workout." Recorded in 1961, the album is an energetic quintet session that Mobley recorded with guitarist Grant Green, pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Philly Joe Jones. The spirited set of five songs consisted of four dynamic Mobley originals, which proved to be ideal vehicles for the powerful improvisations of the individual soloists. The only standard "The Best Things In Life Are Free" – from the musical "Good News" – was a demonstration of Mobley's more lyrical side.
The critic Leonard Feather once described Hank Mobley, who died in 1986, as the "middleweight champion of the tenor saxophone". He wanted to express that Mobley's phrasing was between two other tenor sax champions: the "heavyweight" John Coltrane and the "lightweight" Stan Getz.
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 "Workout" took place on March 26, 1961 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:

• Hank Mobley, tenor sax
• Grant Green, guitar
• Wynton Kelly, piano
• Paul Chambers, bass
• Philly Joe Jones, drums

Selections:

1. Workout
2. Uh Huh
3. Smokin'
4. The Best Things In Life Are Free
5. Greasin' Easy