Ronnie Foster Two Headed Freap 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, organist Ronnie Foster worked with some of the most important jazz and soul musicians of his time, including George Benson, the Jacksons, and Stevie Wonder, who wanted to bring him into the studio for the recording of "Songs In The Key Of Life," one of his most iconic albums. Few know, however, that Foster had already attracted the attention of Blue Note co-founder Francis Wolff in 1970 with his incomparable performance on guitarist Grant Green's rousing live album "Alive". This success allowed Foster to record his debut album as a bandleader for Blue Note two years later: the classic "Two-Headed Freap", produced by George Butler.
The album's eight tracks include three lively covers of pieces by Al Green, Wilson Pickett and Joe Simon, as well as five rousing original compositions, including the driving opening track "Chunky", the gentle sounds of "Summer Song" and "Mystic Brew", a highly visionary title later reimagined by A Tribe Called Quest in their hip-hop classic "Electric Relaxation".
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 Japanese UHQCD with OBI Stripe. The original recording sessions for "Two-Headed Freap" took place on January 20 and 21, 1972 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:

• Ronnie Foster, organ
• Gene Bianco, harp
• Arthur Jenkins, congas
• George Duvivier, bass
• Gordon Edwards, Fender bass
• Jimmy Johnson, drums
• George Devens, vibes
• Gene Bertoncini, guitar

Selections:

1. Chunky
2. Drowning In The Sea Of Love
3. The Two-Headed Freap
4. Summer Song
5. Let's Stay Together
6. Don't Knock My Love
7. Mystic Brew
8. Kentucky Fried Chicken