Clifford Brown Memorial Album UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
The incomparable trumpeter Clifford Brown was just beginning his career when, in 1953, he recorded two sessions as bandleader for Blue Note – a quintet session co-led with alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson and a sextet session under his own name – which were released on the 12-inch LP "Memorial Album" (BLP 1526) shortly after his tragic death in a car accident in 1956. The sextet with alto saxophonist Gigi Gryce, tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse, pianist John Lewis, bassist Percy Heath and drummer Art Blakey presents part of the band – in a rousing version of "Cherokee", the breathtaking ballad interpretation of "Easy Living", the bebop theme "Wail Bait" by Quincy Jones and much more. The second part features the Donaldson-Brown Quintet with Heath on bass, Elmo Hope on piano and Philly Joe Jones on drums – with a set that includes Brown's fast-paced original "Brownie Speaks", Hope's groovy "De-Dah" and the radiant ballad "You Go To My Head".
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 "Memorial Album" took place on June 9 and August 28, 1953 at WOR Studios and Audio-Video Studios in New York.
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:

• Clifford Brown, trumpet
• Gigi Gryce, alto sax, flute
• Lou Donaldson, alto sax
• Charlie Rouse, tenor sax
• John Lewis, piano
• Elmo Hope, piano
• Percy Heath, bass
• Art Blakey, drums
• "Philly" Joe Jones, drums

Selections:

1. Hymn Of The Orient
2. Easy Living
3. Minor Mood
4. Cherokee
5. Wail Bait
6. Brownie Speaks
7. De-Dah
8. Cookin'
9. You Go To My Head
10. Carvin' The Rock