MEDIUM UHQCD
CONDITION sealed
JEWEL CASE M mint
BOOKLET M mint
SERIALNUMBER No
LIMITED Yes
MISCELLANEOUS Stereo, Informations in Englisch and Japanese
REQUIRED HARDWARE Standard CD Player
MUSICIAN HOMEPAGE --
Scott LaFaro - bass
Paul Motian - drums
Bill Evans - piano
gloria's step - 6:12
my man's gone now - 6:26
solar - 8:58
alice in wonderland - 8:38
all of you - 8:21
jade visions – 3:44
Few albums in the history of contemporary American music can be more deserving than this one
It is the first of two Riverside albums derived from the legendary final appearance of the first Bill Evans trio–taped during the last day of a Village Vanguard engagement, barely ten days before the tragic death of bassist Scott LaFaro
The recordings have long been recognized as capturing the essence of the unique three-way interaction that characterized the trio; this album is further distinguished by its emphasis on the solo work and compositions of the innovative LaFaro
The Ultimate High Quality CD (UHQCD)
UHQCD is a radical change to the CD manufacturing process itself
The conventional wisdom about CD manufacturing, which had remained largely unchanged across the world for over 30 years, has been exhaustively questioned
Through this effort, the ultimate in quality was attained - a level of quality that is certainly impossible to achieve with existing CD discs
The Ultimate High Quality CD was developed through an effort to improve audio quality by simply upgrading the materials used in ordinary CDs to higher quality materials
For the substrate a high-transparency and high-fluidity polycarbonate (a type of plastic) of the type used for LCD panels was used, while for the reflective layer, low-cost, common aluminum was replaced with a unique and expensive alloy of high-reflectivity
Differences in manufacturing methods
Conventional CDs are produced using the technique of injection molding to form "pits" of data on polycarbonate material
Metal plate on which "pits" representing audio source data are formed is used as a die
This is called the "stamper"
Polycarbonate is melted at high temperature and poured into the die to duplicate the pit patterns on the stamper
This method is efficient because it enables high-speed production, but it does not enable totally accurate or complete duplication of the pits on the stamper
As a melted plastic, polycarbonate is inevitably viscous, so it cannot penetrate completely into every land and groove of the tiny pits of the stamper
The Ultimate High Quality CD photopolymer is used instead of polycarbonate to replicate the pits of the stamper
In their normal state, photopolymers are liquids, but one of their characteristic properties is that they harden when exposed to light of certain wavelengths
The advantage of this property, perfect replication of very finely detailed pits was achieved
Photopolymers in the liquid state are able to penetrate into the tiniest corners of pits on the stamper so that the pattern of the pits is reproduced to an extremely high level of accuracy
The Ultimate High Quality CD reproduces audio with greater precision and at a level that is impossible to achieve using conventional CD production technology!
RECORDING LIVE, June 25 1961 at The Village Vanguard New York City
ENGINEERING Dave Jones
LABEL Riverside
RE MASTERING --
RE RELEASED 2019
AVERAGE RATING 5 Stars out of 5
MADE IN Japan
STYLE Jazz / Post Bop
AVAILABLE as long as inventory stock
