Stanley Turrentine featuring Shirley Scott Common Touch UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
The great tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine put a poignant expressiveness into every note he played, which even today, more than half a century later, still inspires and moves the audience. Turrentine debuted for Blue Note in 1960 and became one of the label's mainstays for much of the 1960s. In August 1968, Turrentine entered Rudy Van Gelder's recording studio to record his 21st album as a bandleader, the unjustly little-known "Common Touch", on which he was accompanied by his then-wife Shirley Scott on organ. On this album, Turrentine and Scott are joined by guitarist Jimmy Ponder, double bassist Bob Cranshaw and drummer Leo Morris, better known in the jazz world as Idris Muhammad. The six tracks are stylistically diverse but very pleasant to listen to and include groovy pieces such as "Buster Brown" by Turrentine and "Boogaloo" by Scott, as well as the title track with its pleasantly soft sounds, a thoughtful reinterpretation of "Lonely Avenue" by Doc Pomus and the very successful interpretation of the famous song "Blowin' In The Wind" by Bob Dylan.
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 "Common Touch" took place on August 30, 1968 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:

• Bob Cranshaw, Fender bass
• Leo Morris, drums
• Jimmy Ponder, guitar
• Shirley Scott, organ
• Stanley Turrentine, tenor sax

Selections:

1. Buster Brown
2. Blowin' In The Wind
3. Lonely Avenue
4. Boogaloo
5. Common Touch
6. Living Through It All