Jack Wilson Easterly Winds UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
Over the course of his career, Chicago-born pianist and composer Jack Wilson has had the opportunity to participate in a variety of music projects with high-profile artists such as Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, Lou Rawls, Gerald Wilson and Roy Ayers, and recorded several albums as a bandleader for Atlantic Records before making his debut for Blue Note in 1966 with the highly original "Something Personal". The second of the three albums Wilson recorded for the prestigious label, and – according to many critics – by far the best is "Easterly Winds", on which he is accompanied by a hand-picked hard bop sextet – consisting of famed trumpeter Lee Morgan, trombonist Garnett Brown, alto saxophonist Jackie McLean, double bassist Bob Cranshaw and drummer Billy Higgins. The program includes four original pieces by Wilson, including the groovy "Do It," which opens the album, and the sublime ballad "Nirvanna." The delicate reinterpretation of the well-known standard "A Time For Love" by Johnny Mandel and "Frank's Tune" by Frank Strozier, which was recently taken up again by Makaya McCraven in his remix "Deciphering The Message", make "Easterly Winds" a must-have in the Blue Note catalogue.
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 "Easterly Winds" took place on September 22, 1967 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:

• Lee Morgan, trumpet
• Garnett Brown, trombone
• Jackie McLean, alto sax
• Jack Wilson, piano
• Bob Cranshaw, bass
• Billy Higgins, drums

Selections:

1. Do It
2. On Children
3. A Time For Love
4. Easterly Winds
5. Nirvana
6. Frank's Tune