Paul Chambers Bass On Top UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
Paul Chambers was the most sought-after bassist in jazz within a year of arriving in New York City. He was signed to Blue Note, played in Miles Davis' quintet and made countless sessions for the Who's Who of modern jazz. "Bass On Top" was his third album and remains a masterpiece - and this at the tender age of 22. This brilliantly seductive album features the old masters Hank Jones on piano, Kenny Burrell on guitar and Art Taylor on drums – a quartet with whom Chambers has been able to build arrangements in which his instrument is at the forefront of melodies and solos, and which shows off his unmistakably beautiful bowing. Highlights on "Bass On Top" include the chamber jazz rendition of Jerome Kern's "Yesterdays" and a slightly swinging version of "Dear Old Stockholm," a piece often associated with Miles Davis, who was Chambers' employer at the time.
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 session for "Bass On Top" took place on July 14, 1957 at the Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, 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:

• Kenny Burrell, guitar
• Hank Jones, piano
• Paul Chambers, bass
• Art Taylor, drums

Selections:

1. Yesterdays
2. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
3. Chasin' The Bird
4. Dear Old Stockholm
5. The Theme
6. Confessin'