Sam Rivers Fuchsia Swing Song UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
Exceptionally talented saxophonist Sam Rivers was born in Oklahoma and was introduced to music at a young age thanks to his mother, a pianist, and father, a gospel singer. Later he moved to Boston to study at the local conservatory, where he met drummer Tony Williams, who was barely of age at the time. He paved the way by all means by recommending Rivers to work with Miles Davis' quintet and drawing the attention of Blue Note owner Alfred Lion to him. In 1964, Williams asked Rivers to participate in the recording of his debut album for Blue Note, "Life Time," which was a huge success and gave Rivers the opportunity to collaborate on organist Larry Young's album, "Into Somethin'." Eventually, Sam Rivers received a contract from Blue Note to record his first album as a bandleader.
A month later, Rivers headed into Rudy Van Gelder's recording studio to record his sensational debut album, "Fuchsia Swing Song," featuring a star-studded quartet consisting of Williams, double bassist Ron Carter, and pianist Jaki Byard. Although his music has clear avant-garde influences, Rivers always remained firmly anchored in post-bop and blues in this great program with original pieces. Particularly noteworthy are the lively title track, the intense "Downstairs Blues Upstairs" and the enchanting ballad "Beatrice", which is still considered one of Rivers' most beautiful pieces even after many years.
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 session for "Fuchsia Swing Song" took place on December 11, 1964 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:

• Sam Rivers, tenor sax
• Jaki Byard, piano
• Ron Carter, bass
• Anthony Williams, drums

Selections:

1. Fuchsia Swing Song
2. Downstairs Blues Upstairs
3. Cyclic Episode
4. Luminous Monolith
5. Beatrice
6. Ellipsis