Lee Morgan Infinity UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
Just two months after recording his extraordinary sextet album "Cornbread", the prolific trumpeter Lee Morgan returned to Rudy Van Gelder's studio in November 1965 with his quintet – a numerically smaller but no less powerful formation – to record "Infinity", which for unknown reasons was not released until 1981. Alto saxophonist Jackie McLean and drummer Billy Higgins, both featured on the previous album, will once again join Morgan, along with pianist Larry Willis and double bassist Reggie Workman. The five-piece program goes far beyond the tradition of hard bop and points to a still unwritten future. Four captivating original compositions by Morgan and McLean's sweeping ballad "Portrait Of Doll" cover a wide range of musical styles – including the haunting title track, the laid-back 6/8 groove of "Miss Nettie B", the complex, interwoven lines of "Growing Pains" and the driving final track "Zip Code". Scott Yanow's review on AllMusic reads: "The music, while committed to the hard bop tradition, is still challenging and quite tricky; it really inspires the talented musicians. An underrated gem!"
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 session for "Infinity" took place on November 16, 1965 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
• Jackie McLean, alto saxophone
• Larry Willis, piano
• Reggie Workman, bass
• Billy Higgins, drums

Selections:

1. Infinity
2. Miss Nettie B.
3. Growing Pains
4. Portrait Of Doll
5. Zip Code