Big John Patton Let 'Em Roll UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
The Hammond B3 organists featured on Blue Note formed a vibrant and diverse community, with styles ranging from Jimmy Smith's virtuoso innovations to Larry Young's horizon-expanding excursions. Born in Kansas City, Big John Patton moved in the sweet spot of soul jazz during his illustrious time with Blue Note in the 1960s. Patton first appeared as an accompanist on Lou Donaldson's albums "The Natural Soul" and "Good Gracious" and made his debut as a bandleader with Blue Note in 1963 with "Along Came John". Perhaps the most unique – and certainly one of the best – albums of his discography is "Let 'Em Roll", a fantastic session in which Patton added a vibraphonist (Bobby Hutcherson) to the organ trio's standard line-up of guitar (Grant Green) and drums (Otis Finch). Green had already used this line-up the year before on his album "Street Of Dreams" with great success. Highlights of the album include the Patton originals "Let 'Em Roll" and "Latona," a tender rendition of the ballad "The Shadow Of Your Smile" by Johnny Mandel, and a spirited version of Hank Mobley's "The Turnaround."
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 "Let 'Em Roll" took place on December 11, 1965 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:

• Grant Green, guitar
• John Patton, organ
• Bobby Hutcherson, vibes
• Otis Finch, drums

Selections:

1. Let 'Em Roll
2. Latona
3. The Shadow Of Your Smile
4. The Turnaround
5. Jakey
6. One Step Ahead