Brother Jack McDuff Moon Rappin' UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
By the time he joined Blue Note in 1969, "Brother" Jack McDuff was already a prolific and established organist, thanks to an intense concert career in which he had been the focus of attention with his soul band since the early 1960s. After his debut in the Blue Note catalog with the successful "Down Home Style", McDuff released one of the most ambitious, significant and creative albums of his career with "Moon Rappin'", which was first released in 1970. The program includes five vibrant original tracks by McDuff, including the polished "Flat Backin" and "Loose Foot," as well as highly innovative pieces like "Moon Rappin" and "Oblighetto," which later rightfully went down in hip-hop history when they were sampled by A Tribe Called Quest as the basis for two of their most successful songs, which immediately became must-have classics of the genre: "Scenario" and "Check The Rhime".
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 sessions for "Moon Rappin'" took place from December 1 to 3 and 12, 1969 at the Soundwave Recording Studio in King's Park, 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:

• Brother Jack McDuff, organ
• Bill Phillips, tenor sax, flute
• Jerry Byrd, guitar
• Richard Davis, electric bass
• Joe Dukes, drums

Selections:

1. Flat Backin'
2. Oblighetto
3. Moon Rappin'
4. Made In Sweden
5. Loose Foot