Don Cherry Where Is Brooklyn? UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
Blue Note founders Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff were open to new ideas, which they demonstrated time and again in the early 1960s when they signed some of the most experimental musicians in the modern jazz scene, such as Andrew Hill, Eric Dolphy and Tony Williams. But it wasn't until they brought Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry to Blue Note in 1965 that they plunged headlong into the avant-garde. Coleman and Cherry, of course, had made history together years earlier when, as part of Coleman's revolutionary quartet, they made the New York jazz scene sit up and take notice with their performance at the Five Spot Café in 1959 and showed them that there was something new in the city. Although Cherry co-released the album "The Avant-Garde" with John Coltrane in 1961, his career as a bandleader began with his bold Blue Note debut "Complete Communion," recorded in December 1965 (Coleman had documented his new trio live at the Golden Circle in Stockholm for his own Blue Note debut just weeks earlier). In the fall of 1966, Cherry returned to Van Gelder Studio twice, first to record his extensive work "Symphony For Improvisers", then for the fiery "Where Is Brooklyn?". The latter was a highly interactive quartet session featuring Pharoah Sanders on tenor saxophone and piccolo, Henry Grimes on bass and Ed Blackwell on drums, showcasing five Cherry originals, including "Awake Nu" and "The Thing".
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 "Where Is Brooklyn?" took place on November 11, 1966 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:

• Don Cherry, cornet
• Pharoah Sanders, tenor sax, piccolo
• Henry Grimes, bass
• Edward Blackwell, drums

Selections:

1. Awake Nu
2. Taste Maker
3. The Thing
4. There Is The Bomb
5. Unite