Booker Ervin Tex Book Tenor UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
After sideman performances with pianist Horace Parlan in the early 1960s, Booker Ervin recorded two outstanding Blue Note records as a leader in 1968, including "Tex Book Tenor", whose first release was almost 40 years in coming! With an elegant post-bop quintet consisting of trumpeter Woody Shaw, pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Jan Arnet and drummer Billy Higgins, the Texas-born saxophonist plays his way through a series of convincing originals from his band members: Barron's sinuous melody of "Gichi", Shaw's upbeat waltz "In A Capricornian Way" as well as Ervin's lovely ballad "Lynn's Tune" and the hard swinging "Den Tex", which is named after his hometown of Denison. G. Filtgen wrote in Jazzthing: "The tenor saxophonist Booker Ervin became known for his gripping playing in the groups of Charles Mingus. At least as convincing are his own records, which, like "Tex Book Tenor", are of surprising variety."
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 "Tex Book Tenor" took place on June 24, 1968 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:

• Woody Shaw, trumpet
• Booker Ervin, tenor saxophone
• Kenny Barron, piano
• Jan Arnet, bass
• Billy Higgins, drums

Selections:

1. Gichi
2. Den Tex
3. In A Capricornian Way
4. Lynn's Tune
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