Joe Henderson Inner Urge UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
At the age of 27, tenor saxophonist and composer Joe Henderson was already in his artistic heyday when he recorded "Inner Urge", his fourth album for Blue Note. His first three albums – "Page One", "Our Thing" and "In 'N Out" – were quintet recordings, on which Henderson was accompanied by his frequent collaborator, trumpeter Kenny Dorham. For "Inner Urge", however, Henderson decided on a quartet line-up, in which he was the only wind player in the foreground. The extraordinary line-up included two members of the groundbreaking John Coltrane Quartet – pianist McCoy Tyner and drummer Elvin Jones – as well as Blue Note veteran Bob Cranshaw on bass. "Inner Urge" presents two timeless Henderson compositions that later became standards: the intense title track and the upbeat blues "Isotope", a tribute to Thelonious Monk. The third Henderson original, the moving "El Barrio", is followed by a breathtakingly beautiful ballad version of Duke Pearson's "You Know I Care", before the album ends with a fast-paced, fast-paced version of the Cole Porter standard "Night And Day".
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 "Inner Urge" took place on November 30, 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:

• Joe Henderson, tenor sax
• McCoy Tyner, piano
• Bob Cranshaw, bass
• Elvin Jones, drums

Selections:

1. Inner Urge
2. Isotopes
3. El Barrio
4. You Know I Care
5. Night And Day