Jackie McLean Destination Out! UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
Jackie McLean's music was closely interwoven with avant-garde styles in the 1960s – with the brilliant albums "One Step Beyond" and "Destination... Out!" from 1963 – to then transition to free jazz with "New And Old Gospel" (with Ornette Coleman on trumpet) and "'Bout Soul" from 1967. "Destination... Out!" shows the innovative hard bop of Jackie McLean, which was still developing and just starting to take a harder pace. Inspired by Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane, the alto saxophonist gradually ventured into the realm of the avant-garde, but with his own signature: he never completely abandoned the basis of soulful swing and chordal structures. This is how the unusual quintet session with vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson and trombonist Grachan Moncur III, Larry Ridley on bass and Roy Hayes on drums came about. The result of this session is definitely a masterpiece of inside-out jazz.
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 "Destination... Out!" took place on September 20, 1963 at the 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:

• Jackie McLean, alto sax
• Grachan Moncur III, trombone
• Bobby Hutcherson, vibes
• Larry Ridley, bass
• Roy Haynes, drums

Selections:

1. Love And Hate
2. Esoteric
3. Kahlil The Prophet
4. Riff Raff