Joe Pass For Django UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
"For Django" by Joe Pass was recorded by Pacific Jazz in 1964 and has since become a great classic of jazz guitar. On this album, Pass pays tribute to Django Reinhardt, but without in any way trying to imitate his style. Rather, he brings him to the fore at the highest level with his very own style, together with his good friend John Pisano, also a talented jazz guitarist, double bassist Jim Hughart and drummer Colin Bailey. Among the most important pieces of this recording are certainly "Rosetta", "Nuages" and "Fleur D'Ennui".
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 "For Django" took place in October 1964 at Pacific Jazz Studios, Hollywood.
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 Pass, guitar
• John Pisano, guitar
• Jim Hughart, bass
• Colin Bailey, drums

Selections:

1. Django
2. Rosetta
3. Nuages
4. For Django
5. Night And Day
6. Fleur D'Ennui
7. Insensiblement (Once When We Were Young)
8. Cavalerie
9. Django's Castle (Manoir de Mes Reves)
10. Limehouse Blues