Lee Morgan Search for the New Land UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
Two months after recording his later hit album "The Sidewinder", trumpeter Lee Morgan returned to Van Gelder Studio in February 1964 to record his masterful album "Search For The New Land". For the session, Morgan assembled a sextet consisting of several of Blue Notes' young stars, including Herbie Hancock on piano, Grant Green on guitar, and Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone, as well as the dynamic rhythm team of bassist Reggie Workman and drummer Billy Higgins. The album opens with the 16-minute title track, a musical odyssey that alternates a shimmering rubato theme with a galloping exploration by each soloist. This is followed by four more memorable originals by Morgan, including pieces like "The Joker" and "Morgan The Pirate," as well as the movingly plaintive ballad "Melancholee."
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 "Search For The New Land" took place on February 15, 1964 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:

• Billy Higgins, drums
• Grant Green, guitar
• Herbie Hancock, piano
• Lee Morgan, trumpet
• Reggie Workman, bass
• Wayne Shorter, tenor sax

Selections:

1. Search For The New Land
2. The Joker
3. Mr. Kenyatta
4. Melanchole
5. Morgan The Pirate