Fats Navarro The Fabulous Fats Navarro, Volume 1 UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
Trumpeter Theodore "Fats" Navarro was a gifted musician and a great innovator of bebop, whose brilliant career was abruptly ended by his tragic death in 1950 at the age of only 26. Navarro often collaborated with Charlie Parker and coined an extremely original style with the unmistakable sound of his trumpet, which was to influence many great soloists after him, including Clifford Brown. A year after his death, Blue Note released the "Fats Navarro Memorial Album", a 10-inch LP in which it paid tribute to the memory of this great soloist with a series of carefully selected pieces from various recording sessions in which Fats had participated between 1947 and 1949 with Bud Powell's Quintet, Tadd Dameron's Sextet and McGhee-Navarro Boptet – the latter he conducted together with trumpeter Howard McGhee.
In 1957, Blue Note released this album in an expanded version on two 12-inch LPs titled "The Fabulous Fats Navarro", which were included in the 1500 series – along with a number of other pieces from the same recording sessions and some alternate versions of different pieces to bring out as much as possible the extraordinary creativity of Fats Navarro's original improvisations. In this regard, "The Fabulous Fats Navarro" can be considered a kind of master class of bebop, also thanks to the presence of a large crowd of some of the best bebop performers of those years.
Line-up : Fats Navarro (trumpet), Howard McGhee (trumpet), Ernie Henry (alto saxophone), Charlie Rouse (tenor saxophone), Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone), Milt Jackson (vibraphone, piano), Bud Powell (piano), Tadd Dameron (piano), Curley Russell (bass), Nelson Boyd (bass), Tommy Potter (bass), Kenny Clarke (drums), Roy Haynes (drums), Shadow Wilson (drums)
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 "The Fabulous Fats Navarro, Vol. 1" took place on September 26, 1947, October 11, 1948 and August 9, 1949 in New York.
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:

• Ernie Henry, alto saxophone
• Curly Russell, bass
• Nelson Boyd, bass
• Tommy Potter, bass
• Kenny Clarke, drums
• Roy Haynes, drums
• Shadow Wilson, drums
• Bud Powell, piano
• Tadd Dameron, piano
• Milt Jackson, piano, vibes
• Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone
• Sonny Rollins, tenor saxophone
• Fats Navarro, trumpet
• Howard McGhee, trumpet

Selections:

1. The Tadd Dameron Sextet: Our Delight (Alternate Master)
2. The Tadd Dameron Sextet: Our Delight
3. The Tadd Dameron Sextet: The Squirrel (Alternate Master)
4. The Tadd Dameron Sextet: The Squirrel
5. The Tadd Dameron Sextet: The Chase (Alternate Master)
6. The Tadd Dameron Sextet: The Chase
7. Bud Powell Quintet: Wail (Alternate Master)
8. Bud Powell Quintet: Bouncing With Bud (Alternate Master)
9. The McGhee-Navarro Boptet: Double Talk
10. The Tadd Dameron Sextet: Dameronia (Alternate Master
11. The Tadd Dameron Sextet: Dameronia