Lee Konitz & Gerry Mulligan Lee Konitz Plays With The Gerry Mulligan Quartet UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
Three giants of West Coast jazz came together in 1953 for this swinging session, recorded for the Pacific Jazz/World Pacific label: alto saxophone master Lee Konitz, along with the great Gerry Mulligan on baritone saxophone and legendary trumpeter Chet Baker, plays a half-live, half-studio recorded program of standards and an original by Mulligan. The group is accompanied by bassists Carson Smith and Joe Mondragon as well as Larry Bunker on drums and delivers a spontaneous and imaginative jazz classic. Ron Wynn's review on AllMusic described the album as "a simply wonderful combination of idiosyncratic talent."
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 "Lee Konitz Plays With The Gerry Mulligan Quartet" took place on January 23 and 30 and February 1, 1953 at The Haig Studio, Hollywood and Phil Turetzky's home in Los Angeles, among other places.
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:

• Lee Konitz, alto sax
• Gerry Mulligan, baritone sax
• Chet Baker, trumpet
• Carson Smith, bass
• Joe Mondragon, bass
• Larry Bunker, drums

Selections:

1. I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me
2. Broadway
3. Almost Like Being In Love
4. Sextet II
5. Lady Be Good
6. Too Marvelous For Words
7. Lover Man
8. I'll Remember April
9. These Foolish Things
10. All The Things You Are