Donald Byrd Places And Spaces UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
Less than two weeks after Bobbi Humphrey recorded "Fancy Dancer" at the Sound Factory in Hollywood, Donald Byrd went to the same studio with much of the same musicians to record his new opus, "Places & Spaces." The album, peppered with hits such as "Wind Parade", "Dominoes", "You And Music" and "Just My Imagination", proved to be the absolute highlight of the star trumpeter's fusion period. It was Byrd's fifth consecutive album produced by the visionary Larry Mizell and Byrd's penultimate recording session for Blue Note – the label he had been signed to since 1958 and which had accompanied him on his remarkable journey from a first-class hard bop trumpeter to a pioneer of R&B funk fusion.
Line-up: Donald Byrd (trumpet, flugelhorn, vocals), Fonce Mizell (trumpet, clavinet, vocals), Ray Brown (trumpet), George Bohannon (trumbone), Tyree Glenn Jr. (tenor saxophone), Larry Mizell (piano, vocals), Skip Scarborough (piano), Craig McMullen (guitar), John Rowin (guitar), Chuck Rainey (bass), Harvey Mason (drums), Mayuto Correa (percussion, conga), King Errisson (conga), James Carter (flute), Kay Haith (vocals), Larry Dunn (synthesizer)
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 "Places And Spaces" took place on August 18, 20 and 25, 1975 at The Sound Factory in Los Angeles, USA.
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:

• George Bohannon, trombone
• Ray Brown, trumpet
• Donald Byrd, flugelhorn, trumpet, vocals
• James Carter, whistle
• Mayuto Correa, congas, percussion
• Tyree Glenn, Jr., tenor sax
• Kay Haith, vocals
• King Errisson, congas
• Wade Marcus, conductor, string arrangements
• Harvey Mason, drums
• Craig McMullen, guitar
• Fonce Mizell, clavichord, clavinet, trumpet, vocals
• Larry Mizell, piano, vocals
• Chuck Rainey, electric bass
• John Rowin, guitar
• Skip Scarborough, electric piano

Selections:

1. Change (Makes You Want To Hustle)
2. Wind Parade
3. Dominoes
4. Places And Spaces
5. Night Whistler
6. Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)