Dizzy Reece Star Bright UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, trumpeter Dizzy Reece moved to London at the age of 17 and soon began performing in various European cities, most notably Paris, where he had the great chance to play with artists such as Don Byas and Kenny Clarke. During this time, Reece also attracted the attention of Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins, who praised a new exceptional trumpeter on the European music scene. When Donald Byrd and Art Taylor came to Paris on tour in 1958, they offered Reece to attend their concerts, which gave them a success that opened the doors to the recording studio to record "In Trinity" – the album with which Reece made his debut in the Blue Note catalog.
Encouraged by Lion, Reece moved to New York the following year, where the owner of Blue Note quickly took him to a recording studio with a top-level hard bop band that included tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley, pianist Wynton Kelly, double bassist Paul Chambers, and Art Taylor on drums. The resulting album "Star Bright" is one of the most underrated gems in the Blue Note catalog, where Reece's talent shines in a six-track program that includes some of his bluesy original compositions such as "The Rake," "Groovesville," "The Rebound," and "A Variation On Monk." The set is rounded off by two swing standards, "I'll Close My Eyes" and "I Wished On The Moon", which bring out Reece's sublime melodies at the highest level.
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 "Star Bright" took place on November 19, 1959 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:

• Paul Chambers, bass
• Wynton Kelly, piano
• Hank Mobley, tenor sax
• Dizzy Reece, trumpet
• Art Taylor, drums

Selections:

1. The Rake
2. I'll Close My Eyes
3. Groovesville
4. The Rebound
5. I Wished On The Moon
6. A Variation On Monk