Chet Baker Chet Baker Sings UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
Chet Baker's complementary talents as both a trumpeter and a singer are well known today. Chet's trumpet and voice seem to be extensions of the same musical personality. However, "Chet Baker Sings" was a revelation at the time, bringing Baker new fame and a new audience that was less familiar with jazz than with pop music. The reasons are obvious: Chet's voice is tender and beautiful, but at the same time his phrasing swings and surprises again and again. While "Chet Baker Sings" is now considered a classic and continues to be a jazz bestseller, the "experts" did not initially take his album too well: Many renowned jazz critics disapproved of Chet's singing as rough, unprofessional and not masculine. Despite these opinions, the album never stopped selling.
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 "Chet Baker Sings" took place on October 27, 1953, February 15, 1954, and July 23 and 30, 1956.
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:

• Chet Baker, vocals, trumpet
• Russ Freeman, piano, celeste
• James Bond, bass
• Carson Smith, bass
• Peter Littman, drums
• Lawrence Marable, drums
• Bob Neel, drums

Selections:

1. That Old Feeling
2. It's Always You
3. Like Someone In Love
4. My Ideal
5. I've Never Been In Love Before
6. My Buddy
7. But Not For Me
8. Time After Time
9. I Get Along Without You Very Well
10. My Funny Valentine
11. There Will Never Be Another You
12. The Thrill Is Gone
13. I Fall In Love Too Easily
14. Look For The Silver Lining