The Horace Silver Quintet Silver's Serenade UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
"Silver's Serenade" was the last album in a series of fantastic releases recorded by pianist Horace Silver in the most famous line-up of his quintet with Blue Mitchell on trumpet, Junior Cook on tenor saxophone, Gene Taylor on bass and Roy Brooks on drums. The program on "Silver's Serenade" consists of five Silver originals that embody his extraordinary compositional style: captivating melodies, sophisticated harmonies and complex rhythms with a soulful and unerring sense of swing. From the relaxed groove of the opening title track to the rousing finale "Nineteen Bars", the grandiose quintet celebrates its swan song in style.
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 sessions for "Silver's Serenade" took place on May 7 and 8, 1963 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
• Junior Cook, tenor sax
• Horace Silver, piano
• Gene Taylor, bass
• Roy Brooks, drums

Selections:

1. Silver's Serenade
2. Let's Get To The Nitty Gritty
3. Sweet Sweetie Dee
4. The Dragon Lady
5. Nineteen Bars