Wayne Shorter The All Seeing Eye UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
"The All Seeing Eye" is an ambitious album for Blue Note. Shorter wanted to use "a wider range of colors and textures" with this album and continue his exploration of "life, the universe and God". "The All Seeing Eye" is brilliant: Shorter is accompanied by Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Grachan Moncur III on trombone, James Spaulding on alto saxophone, Herbie Hancock on piano, Ron Carter on bass, Joe Chambers on drums and in a piece by Wayne Alan Shorter, the composer's brother, on flugelhorn. In many ways, "The All Seeing Eye" seems to be the most complete and comprehensive work of Shorter's career. The performance is outstanding throughout, the music wanders into dark places and corners where you don't necessarily expect jazz (see "Genesis" or the echoes of Miles' Davis' "Sketches Of Spain" in the last track). It is convincing proof that Shorter deserves the recognition he receives alongside greats such as Coltrane, Blakey and Mingus and other legends.
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 "The All Seeing Eye" took place on October 15, 1965 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:

• Freddie Hubbard, trumpet, fluegelhorn
• Alan Shorter, fluegelhorn
• Grachan Moncur III, trombone
• James Spaulding, alto sax
• Wayne Shorter, tenor sax
• Herbie Hancock, piano
• Ron Carter, bass
• Joe Chambers, drums

Selections:

1. The All Seeing Eye
2. Genesis
3. Chaos
4. Face Of The Deep
5. Mephistopheles