Ornette Coleman New York Is Now! UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
"New York Is Now!" – a rather daring statement by saxophonist Ornette Coleman, but one that clearly illustrates his change in role: from one of the most important figures in the LA underground scene of the early 60s to an artist who paved the way for an enormous wave of growth in the New York downtown scene in the years that followed! Ornette Coleman can be heard here in his late phase of the 60s – freer than ever before and with a line-up that includes Jimmy Garrison on bass and Elvin Jones on drums – still without piano – as well as Dewey Redman on tenor saxophone, who really rose to prominence with this album. Phil Freeman remarked: "The interplay is intense and the rhythm section, which was taken over by John Coltrane, combined powerful swing with an indescribable gravitas. This sense of greater down-to-earthness is what makes "New York Is Now!" so unique in Coleman's discography."
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 "New York Is Now!" took place on April 29 and May 7, 1968 at A&R Studios, New York.
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:

• Ornette Coleman, alto saxophone, trumpet, violin
• Dewey Redman, tenor saxophone
• Jimmy Garrison, bass
• Elvin Jones, drums

Selections:

1. The Garden Of Souls
2. Toy Dance
3. Broad Way Blues
4. Round Trip
5. We Now Interrupt For A Commercial