Reuben Wilson Love Bug UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
After his debut in 1968 in the prestigious Blue Note catalog with the album "On Broadway", the famous organist Reuben Wilson returned to Rudy Van Gelder's recording studio in March of the following year to record his second album "Love Bug". On this occasion, the famous producer and co-founder of Blue Note, Francis Wolff, put Wilson at the head of a dynamic quintet consisting of trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist George Coleman, guitarist Grant Green and drummer Leo Morris, who has gone down in jazz history under the name Idris Muhammad. The result is one of the most extraordinary soul-jazz albums of the late 1960s – a record of six brilliant pieces, including Wilson's polished original compositions "Hot Rod", "Back Out" and the album's title track, as well as beautiful covers of some of the biggest R&B hits of the time: "I'm going to Make You Love Me" by Gamble & Huff (interpreted by The Supremes and The Temptations, among others), "I Say A Little Prayer" by Burt Bacharach and Hal David (Dionne Warwick and Aretha Franklin) and "Hold On, I'm Coming" by Isaac Hayes and David Porter (Sam & Dave).
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 "Love Bug" took place on March 21, 1969 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
• George Coleman, tenor sax
• Grant Green, guitar
• Reuben Wilson, organ
• Leo Morris (Idris Muhammad), drums

Selections:

1. Hot Rod
2. I'm Gonna Make You Love Me
3. I Say A Little Prayer
4. Love Bug
5. Stormy
6. Back Out