Wayne Shorter JuJu UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
1964 was a significant year in Wayne Shorter's musical life. At the beginning of the year, the saxophonist was still a member of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers and played on classic Blue Note albums such as "Free For All" and "Indestructible". In the spring, Shorter made his promising label debut with "Night Dreamer", and in the summer he joined the Miles Davis Quintet, consolidating a line-up that would become one of the most groundbreaking bands in jazz history. When he returned to the studio for Blue Note in August, he was accompanied by three musicians closely associated with John Coltrane: pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Reggie Workman, and drummer Elvin Jones. The resulting album "JuJu" is a gem in Shorter's impressive discography and presents six of his impressive original compositions, including the rousing title track, the mesmerizing "House Of Jade" and the happily swinging "Yes Or No".
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 "JuJu" took place on August 3, 1964 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:

• Wayne Shorter, tenor sax
• McCoy Tyner, piano
• Reginald Workman, bass
• Elvin Jones, drums

Selections:

1. JuJu
2. Deluge
3. House Of Jade
4. Mahjong
5. Yes Or No
6. Twelve More Bars To Go