Grant Green Green Is Beautiful UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
In the first half of the 1960s, guitarist Grant Green was one of Blue Note's most prolific artists, as evidenced by the more than twenty hard bop and soul jazz sessions he recorded as a bandleader for the American label between 1961 and 1965. By the time Green returned to Blue Note in 1969, his style had evolved considerably, incorporating many elements of jazz-funk, which is evident from the first listen to his album "Carryin' On." In January 1970, Green went to the recording studio of the legendary Rudy Van Gelder to record his lively album "Green Is Beautiful", which, thanks to the participation of musicians such as the great trumpeter Blue Mitchell, tenor saxophonist Claude Bartee, organists Emmanuel Riggins and Neal Creque, double bassist Jimmy Lewis, drummer Idris Muhammad, Candido Camero on congas and Richie Landrum on bongos, remains one of the absolute masterpieces of that time to this day Applies. Green's distinctive style is evident in all five tracks on the album, which begins with a ten-minute elaborate reimagining of James Brown's "Ain't It Funky Now" and two brilliant covers of "A Day In The Life" by The Beatles and "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" by Burt Bacharach, as well as two unforgettable Creque originals, "The Windjammer" and "Dracula."
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 "Green Is Beautiful" took place on January 30, 1970 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:

• Blue Mitchell, trumpet
• Claude Bartee, tenor sax
• Emanuel Riggins, organ
• Earl Neal Creque, organ (on "The Windjammer" only)
• Grant Green, guitar
• Jimmy Lewis Fender, bass
• Idris Muhammad, drums
• Candido Camero, conga
• Richard Lendrum, bongo

Selections:

1. Ain't It Funky Now
2. A Day In The Life
3. The Windjammer
4. I'll Never Fall In Love Again
5. Dracula